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Post 8vo. + + * * * * * + + +{3} + +_LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY_ 7, 1854. + + * * * * * + +OUR NINTH VOLUME. + +The commencement of a New Year, and of our Ninth Volume, imposes upon Us +the pleasant duty of wishing many happy returns of the season to all our +Friends, Correspondents, and Readers. + +Those of the latter class, who have so earnestly impressed upon Us the +propriety and advisableness of placing our Advertisements on the outside +leaves of each Number, will see that their wishes have at length been +complied with. We trust they will be pleased with this change, and receive +it as a proof of our readiness to attend to every reasonable suggestion for +the improve of "NOTES AND QUERIES." We can assure them that it is no less +our desire to do so than our interest. + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM. + + "_Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque + trouvaille à faire, même dans ce qui a été le plus visité_.--Henry + PATIN. + +I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its +bibliographic peculiarities--which may almost pass for romance. + +It is a _Scottish_ work with regard to the family connexion of its author: +it is an _Irish_ work with regard to the place of his nativity. It is an +_English_ work as to the scenes which it represents; a _French_ work as to +the language in which it was written; a _Dutch_ work as to the country in +which it came to light. It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since +borne the name of its author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it +has been twice printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as +fiction: it is now believed to be history. + +But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must not +add to the number. The work to which I allude is the _Mémoires du comte de +Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton_. + +The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work remind me +of my _portefeuille Hamiltonien_, and impose on me the task of a partial +transcription of its contents. + +Of the numerous editions of the _Mémoires de Grammont_ as recorded by +Brunet, Renouard, or Quérard, or left unrecorded by those celebrated +bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to the critical +examination of future editors: + + 1. "_Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant + particuliérement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le + regne de Charles II._ A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12^o, pp. 4 + + 428. + + "AVIS DU LIBRAIRE.--Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des + mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Mémoires du comte + de Grammont_ réveillera sans doute la curiosité du public pour un homme + qui lui est déjà si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la réputation qu'il a + sçu se faire, que par les différens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de + Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs ouvrages; et l'on ne doute + nullement qu'il ne reçoive, avec beaucoup de plaisir, un livre, dans + lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il en a bien voulu + raconter lui-même à celui qui a pris la peine de dresser ces mémoires. + + "Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent + particuliè[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous + le regne de Charles II; et, comme on y découvre quantité de choses, qui + ont été tenues cachées jusqu'à présent, et qui font voir jusqu'à quel + excès on a porté le déréglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le + morceau le moins intéressant de ces mémoires. + + "On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a reçue de Paris: + et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a été + possible." + +The above is the _first_ edition. The imprint is fictitious. It was much +used by the Elzévirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second edition, with +the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de Sardière, No. 939.). +The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. The _avis_ is omitted +in that edition, and in all the later impressions which I have seen. Its +importance as a history of the publication induces one to revive it. There +is also an edition printed at Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); +and another at La Haye in 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits +the edition of 1713. Renouard and Quérard notice it too briefly. + + 2. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée d'un discours préliminaire mêlé + de prose et de vers, par le même auteur, et d'un avertissement + contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton._ A Paris, + chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d'or. 1746." 12^o. pp. + 24 + 408. + + "AVERTISSEMENT. Le public a fait un accueil si favorable à ces + _Mémoires_, que nous avons crû devoir en procurer une nouvelle edition. + Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, très-piquantes par + elles-mêmes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse d'Angleterre sous le + regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs écrits d'une maniére si vive + et si ingénieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de plaire infiniment, + quand la matiére en seroit moins interessante. + + "Le héros de ces _Mémoires_ a trouvé dans le comte Hamilton un + historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la + même main à qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappés au même + coin. + + "Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mêlé de prose et de + vers, où l'on exagére la difficulté qu'il y a de bien répresenter le + comte de Grammont. On reconnoîtra facilement que ce discours est du + même auteur que les _Mémoires_, et qu'il devoit naturellement en {4} + orner le frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en + apprécier le mérite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un goût + sûr et délicat le comparent au _Voyage de Chapelle_, et qu'ils y + trouvent les mêmes graces, le même naturel et la même légereté. + + "Il ne nous reste plus qu'à dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-même, auteur + de ces mémoires, et du discours qui les précede. + + "Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, étoit de l'ancienne et illustre + maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il nâquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pére le + chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi + duc de Châtelleraud en France. + + "Sa mére étoit madame Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi + d'Irlande, et grand maître de la maison du roi Charles. + + "Dans les révolutions qui arrivérent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent + le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frére qui passérent en France. Ils y + amenérent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit à peine que de naître. + + "Lorsque le roi fut rétabli sur son trône, il ramena en Angleterre les + jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les mémoires de Grammont combien + cette cour étoit brillante; la curiosité y attira le comte de Grammont. + Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas à sentir le pouvoir + de ses charmes, il l'épousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'_Antoine_ + avoit pour sa soeur, qui l'engagea à faire plusieurs voyages en France, + où il étoit élevé, et où il a passé une partie de sa vie. + + "M. Antoine Hamilton étant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en + Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ébranler ni sa religion, ni la + fidélité qu'il devoit à son roi. + + "Le roi Jaques étant monté sur le trône, il lui donna un regiment + d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince, + ayant été obligé de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la + famille royale en France. C'est-là et pendant le long séjour qu'il y a + fait, qu'il a composé les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de + réputation. Il mourut à S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands + sentimens de piété, et après avoir reçu les derniers sacremens. Il + étoit âgé alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a mérité les regrets de tous ceux + qui avoient le bonheur de le connoître. Né sérieux, il avoit dans + l'esprit tous les agrémens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de + louanges, à ces agrémens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit + toutes les qualitéz du coeur." + +If the above _avertissement_ first appeared in 1746, which I have much +reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The +biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later +memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moréri of 1759, we have it almost _verbatim_, +but taken from the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1749. Neither +Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Quérard notice the edition of 1746. The copy +which I have examined has the book-plate G. III. R. + + 3. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton_. 1760." + [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, 1760.] 12^o. I. partie, pp. 36 + + 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340. + +This edition has the same _avertissement_ as that of 1746. The imprint is +M.DCC.LX. The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the +water-mark _Auvergne_ 1749. At the end of the second part appears, _De +l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée_, 1760. This must be M. François Didot of +Paris. I find the same colophon in the _Bibliographie instructive_, 1763-8. +v. 631. This very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic +trio! + + 4. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton_. _Nouvelle edition_, _augmentée de notes et d'eclaircissemens + necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole_. Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill. 1772." + 4^o, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits. + + [Dedication.] "À madame.... + + "L'éditeur vous consacre cette édition, comme un monument de son + amitié, de son admiration, et de son respect; à vous, dont les grâces, + l'esprit, et le goût retracent au siècle présent le siècle de Louis + quatorze et les agrémens de l'auteur de ces mémoires." + +Such are the inscriptions on the _Strawberry-Hill gem_. Much has been said +of its brilliancy--and so, for the sake of novelty, I shall rather dwell on +its flaws. + +The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at +Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of +which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions--now for its +flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had to insert +_eight_ accents to make decent French of it! The _avis_ is a mere medley of +fragments: I could not ask a compositor to set it up! The _avertissement_ +is copied, without a word of intimation to that effect, from the edition of +1746. The notes to the _épître_ are also copied from that edition, except +_L'abbé de Chaulieu_; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same +source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in +part taken from an erroneous printed _Key_. Where are the +_éclaircissements_? I find none except a list of proper names--of which +about one-third part is omitted! + +In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the _Manuel du +libraire_, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the _avis_ prefixed to +the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1812; in quoting Quérard, to _La +France littéraire_, 1827-39. The other references are to sale catalogues. +The titles of the books described, and the extracts, are given _literatim_, +and, except as above noted, with the same accentuation and punctuation. + +To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French +text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made. +That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque! + +The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of the +editions of 1713 and 1746--the rectification of the names of persons {5} +and places--a revision of the punctuation--and a strict conformity, as to +general orthography and accentuation, with the _Dictionnaire de l'Académie +française_, as edited in 1835. The substance of the _avis_ of 1713 might be +stated in a preface; and the _avertissement_ of 1746, a clever composition, +would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt +its value may consult the _Grand dictionnaire historique_, and the +_Biographie universelle_. As one hundred and sixty persons are noticed in +the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would require much +research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave would, however, be +very serviceable--more so, I conceive, than the printed notes of M. Horace +Walpole. + +As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I shall +conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid the +_jolie édition_ printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, _par ordre de monseigneur +le comte d'Artois_, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen of editorship. +Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a piratical +pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible books; the +portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly +copies of prints--not _d'après des tableaux originaux_. The most desirable +editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772, as a _curiosity_; 3. +That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812, 18^o. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by +M. Renouard in 1812, 8^o. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms +part of the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_ in 3 vols. It seldom occurs +for sale. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +THE "ANCREN RIWLE." + +The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise on +the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society, +under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable, and +both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who are +interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in the +subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably +executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks on +the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton is +unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen +College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original +vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by +permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and +after reading and making extracts from it[1], I came to the same conclusion +as Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the +internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts +containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that +Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original +author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have +not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident +that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop +Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the +oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made in +it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the printed +edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been, with +advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are passed +over. Thus, at p. 8., for _unweote_ the second hand has _congoun_; at p. +62., for _herigen_ it has _preisen_; at p. 90., for _on cheafle_, it reads +_o muþe_, &c. The original hand has also some remarkable variations, which +would cause a suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work. +Thus, at p. 12., for _scandle_, the first hand has _schonde_; at p. 62., +for _baldeliche_ it reads _bradliche_; at p. 88., for _nout for_, it has +_anonden_, and the second hand _aneust_; at p. 90., for _sunderliche_ it +reads _sunderlepes_, &c. All these, and many other curious variations, are +not noticed in the printed edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written, +in a hand of the time of Edward I., as follows: "_Datum abbatie et +conventui de Leghe per Dame M. de Clare._" The lady here referred to was +doubtless Maud de Clare, second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford +and Gloucester, who, at the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known +to have changed the Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an +abbess and nuns of the same order; and it was probably at the same period +she bestowed this volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop +Poore, who died in 1237, might have been the original author of the _Ancren +Riwle_, is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error +as to Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to +Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the fly-leaves +of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their respective +contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is more blamable, +and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but (as remarked by +Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of the work. The real +fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged Latin version of the +seven books of the _Riwle_ now preserved in Magdalen College, and this +supposition may well enough be reconciled with the words of Leland, who +says of him,-- + + "Edidit inter cætera, libros _septem_ de Vita Solitaria, {6} ad + Virgines Tarentinas, Duriæ cultrices."--_Comment_., p. 316. + +A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian collection +(Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been recovered from +the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of 1731. I am +happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the manuscript +marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of the _Riwle_, +made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing with the vernacular +text), has been entirely restored, except that the top margins of the +leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This damage has, +unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the treatise, and the +title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's note. This copy of +the French version appears to be unique, and is the more interesting from +its having a note at the end (now half obliterated by the fire), stating +that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, whose motto is +also added, "_Plesance. M [mil]. en vn_." The personage in question was +Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and wife of +Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as a nun in the convent at Barking +in 1399. Is any other instance known of the use of this motto? Before I +conclude these brief remarks, I may mention a _fifth_ copy of the _Ancren +Riwle_, which has escaped the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the +enormous folio manuscript of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon +MS., in the Bodleian Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and +occurs at pp. 371^b.--392. In the table of contents prefixed to this volume +it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the phraseology is +somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS. Cleopatra C. vi, than +with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition is printed. This copy is +not complete, some leaves having been cut out in the sixth book, and the +scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed edition. + +It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task of +editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same age as +the _Ancren Riwle_, still existing in various manuscripts. One of the +homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34., Cott. MS. Titus +D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17A. xxvii., is very curious, and well +deserves to be printed. + +F. MADDEN. + +British Museum. + +[Footnote 1: At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my +extracts read "yze."] + + * * * * * + +ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY, A.D. 1650-51. + +At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant +children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds, it +may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order +addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which +applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that +some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those +with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment between +vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of +observation. + + "BY THE MAYOR. + + "Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to put + in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants, and + passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great scandall + and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These are + therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call + before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to + charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty + of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant + that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end + the said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the + several persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are + further to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not + fit to work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where + they dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging, + shal give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she + were taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. _And for + children under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give + an account of their parents, the parish where they are found are to + provide for them; and for those which shall bee found lying under + stalls, having no habitation or parents (from five to nine years old), + are to be sent to the Wardrobe House_[2], _to be provided for by the + corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be + sent to Bridewel._ And for men or women who are able to work and goe + begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be + passed to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken + againe, they are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according + to the discretion of the governours. _And for those persons that shal + be found to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking, + those children are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel, + and the persons so hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed + away, or kept at work there, according to the governour's discretion._ + And for al other vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to + be forthwith sent down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected, + according to the statute laws of this commonwealth, except before + excepted; and the president and governours of Bridewel are hereby + desired to meet twice every week to see to the execution of this + Precept. _And the steward of the workehouse called the Wardrobe, is {7} + authorised to receive into that house such children as are of the age + between five and nine, as is before specified and limited_; and the + said steward is from time to time to acquaint the corporation for the + poor, what persons are brought in, to the end they may bee provided + for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January, 1650. + + SADLER." + +JOHN BRUCE. + +[Footnote 2: I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the +name of The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's +Wardrobe. It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.] + + * * * * * + +LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN. + + Sir, + + I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. & Q.," transcripts of + half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose + correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve, + + Yours faithfully, + HENRY ELLIS. + +British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853. + +I. + +_Dean Swift to_ * * * * * * *. + +[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. _Orig_.] + + Belcamp, Mar. 14th. + + Sir, + + Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his + house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a + plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him + in the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks + to cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no + longer. Mr. Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object + to be received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story + naturally, and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him + curable, and it be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you + will receive him. + + I am, Sir, + Your most humble Servt. + JONATH. SWIFT. + +II. + +_The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley_. + +[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. _Orig_.] + + Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718]. + + Worthy Sir + + I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for + me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the + University (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation) + that you could recover the Book, or at least could find where it is + lodged, that Mr. Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume, + may be done. + + If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a great + discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and began + to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of Ely's + Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been + printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no + name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's + Tullie's Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the + first on vellum, the other on paper. + + May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as + Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of + Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether + either of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen + four or five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by + Grafton, except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a + great Rarity, if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It + varies from all the other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest, + I think, in 1549. One reason of my enquiry is, because I want the + Title, for the date is at the end of the Book, and indeed twice; both + on the end of the Communion Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your + pardon for so small an enquiry, whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg + and Nic. Jenson. My business consists much in trifles. + + I am, Sir, + Your most ob. humble + Servant, + THO. BAKER. + + To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the + Riding Hood Shop, the corner + of Chandois and Bedford Streets, + Covent Garden, + London. + +A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small +scores." + +III. + +_Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to the Rev. Mr. Amory of +Taunton, dated Dunsland, March_ 7, 1731. + +[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.] + + I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation + to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of + the Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly + transacted that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it + were sent him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after + the thing was finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these + Letters and other papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his + History, and which were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was + chancellor, told Morrice's Grandson that if he would file a Bill in + Chancery, he would endeavour to get them; but young Morrice having + deserted the Whig Interest, was {8} prevailed upon to let it drop. This + I know to be fact, for I had it not only from the last-mentioned + Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son of the + Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity of + searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one + time or other I design to publish together with the account of that + affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him + say that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the + least of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the + Nation, had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke + of York) to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to + their Infamy. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + +BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. + +On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village and +church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested by +the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect position +on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They proved to be +those which once had covered and protected the grave of the good Archbishop +Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that parish, and that +of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it appeared that their +remains had been deposited within a small chapel on the south side of the +chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family, of Broadhurst, in the +parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither in 1674, and resided with +his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it +may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly mentioned by the biographers of +Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an ancient mansion, the residence +formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated about a mile north of the village +of Horsted. There it was that Leighton made his will, in February, 1683; +but his death occurred, it will be remembered, in singular accordance with +his desire often expressed, at an inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London. + +The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an arch +now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a school-room; +more recently, however, either through its becoming out of repair, or from +some other cause, the little structure was demolished. The large slabs +which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his brother were taken up +and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now covers the space thus +thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to mark the position of +the graves, which in all probability, ere many years elapse, will be +disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the ashes of Leighton +scattered to the winds. + +In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies of +bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so well +carried out by MR. MARKLAND in regard to the grave of Bishop Ken, shall we +not make an effort to preserve from desecration and oblivion the +resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton for his learning and piety, so +worthy to be held in honoured remembrance for his high principles and his +consistent conduct in an evil age? + +ALBERT WAY. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Grammars, &c. for Public Schools._--Would it not be desirable for some +correspondents of "N. & Q." to furnish information respecting grammars, +classics, and other works which have been written for the various public +schools? Such information might be useful to book collectors; and would +also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose learned masters have +prepared such books. My contribution to the list is small: but I remember a +valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. ---- Hook, formerly head master +of the College School at Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as +also a peculiar English grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master +of St. Mary de Crypt School, in the same place, for the use of that school. +I also possess a copy (1640) of the _Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia_, for the +use of Abingdon School, and _Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of +the Hebrews_ (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written +after he ceased to be master of the schools. + +P. H. FISHER. + +Stroud. + +"_To captivate._"--Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the Americans +(January 9th, 1819), says: + + "They sometimes, I see, use the word _captivate_ thus: 'Five or six + ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'" + +Originally, the words _to captivate_ were synonymous with _to capture_, and +the expression was used with reference to warlike operations. To captivate +the affections was a secondary use of the phrase. The word is used in the +original sense in many old English books. It is not used so now in the +United States. + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster._--Under the year A.D. 782, the +translator informs us that "Hirenes and _his_ son Constantine became +emperors." Such an emperor is not to be found {9} in the annals of +Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge, who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon, +had referred to him on this occasion, he would probably have found that the +Empress Irene, a name dear to the reverencers of images, was the person +meant. The original Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this +empress, who is considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the +deposition and blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily +forgotten. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.--_ + + "A la Saint-Antoine (17th January) + Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine." + + "A la Saint-Barnabé (11th June) + La faux au pré." + + "A la Sainte-Cathérine (25th November) + Tout bois prend racine." + + "Passé la Saint-Clément (23rd November) + Ne sème plus froment." + + "Si l'hiver va droit son chemin, + Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.) + + "S'il n'arreste tant ne quant, + Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Clément." (23rd Nov.) + + "Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombrée, + Vous l'aurez à la Saint-André." (30th Nov.) + +CEYREP. + +_Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.--_ + + "Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus + Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua. + Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus. + Cælum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris. + Ob^t. 27 Mar. 1624. Æt. 77." + +Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine: + + "Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole, + Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul; + But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name, + Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame. + A priest of priests, inferior was to none, + Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run. + Thus ends the record of this pious man; + Go and do likewise, reader, if you can." + +C. K. P. + +Newport, Essex. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE. + +In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund +Burke," which appeared in the _Athenæum_ of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th (and to +which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & Q." as have not +yet seen it), the writer observes: + + "There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to infer + from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or + document of any kind--except a mysterious fragment of one + letter--relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long after + Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from + parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother, + or brother to sister." + +And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference +drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the grounds +which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in writings is to +call attention to a source from which, if any such letters exist, they may +yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of professed collectors +of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be conceived that the +destroyer of these materials for the history of the Burkes, be he who he +may, can have got _all_ the family correspondence into his possession. On +the other, it is far from improbable that in some of the collections to +which I have alluded, some letters, notes, or documents may exist, +treasured by the possessors as mere autographs; but which might, if given +to the world, serve to solve many of those mysteries which envelope the +early history of Edmund Burke. The discovery of documents of such a +character seems to be the special province of "N. & Q.," and I hope, +therefore, although this letter has extended far beyond the limits I +originally contemplated, you will insert it, and so permit me to put this +Query to autograph collectors, "Have you any documents illustrative of the +Burkes?" and to add as a Note, "If so, print them!" + +N. O. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Farrant's Anthem._--From what source did Farrant take the words of his +well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?" + +C. F. S. + +_Ascension Day Custom._--What is the origin of the custom which still +obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting the clergy +with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day? + +C. F. S. + +_Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections._--In Snelling's tract on +_Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver Coins_ (1769), p. 45., it is +stated, in the description of a gold Coin of Elizabeth, that it is "unique, +formerly in the collection of Thomas Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the +collection of Thomas Knight, Esq., who purchased the whole cabinet."--Can +any of your readers inform me who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his +collection is still in existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what +manner? I am not aware of any sale catalogue under his name. + +J. B. B. + +_"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."_--I have met with, and +sometimes quoted, this line. {10} Who is its author, and in what poem does +it occur? + +J. W. T. + +Dewsbury. + +_Lord Fairfax._--In the _Peerage of Scotland_ I find this entry: + + "Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of + Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship + resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States." + +Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of that +family taking a part in Scotch affairs. _Cameron_ is, I suppose, the parish +of that name in the east of Fife. + +I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, the +barony was created? + +2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in +Scotland, if they ever held any? + +3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? If +so, is he known and addressed as _Lord_ Fairfax, or how? + +4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of the +United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to exercise +the functions of a peer of Scotland, _e.g._ in the election of +representative peers? + +5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly +or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces +allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the +roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose +existence is a denial of the first proposition in the constitution of his +country? + +Perhaps UNEDA, W. W., or some other of your Philadelphia correspondents, +will be good enough to notice the third of these Queries. + +W. H. M. + +_Tailless Cats._--A writer in the _New York Literary World_ of Feb. 7, +1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of tails, which are found +in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx correspondent will say +whether this is a fact or a Jonathan. + +SHIRLEY HIBBERD. + +_Saltcellar._--Can any of your readers gainsay that in saltcellar the +cellar is a mere corruption of _salière_? A list of compound words of Saxon +and French origin might be curious. + +H. F. B. + +_Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos._--Can any reader of "N. & +Q." give the _date_ of the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who +assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal Oak," after the +battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant? + +[mu]. + +_Naval Atrocities._--In the article on "Wounds," in the _Encyc. Brit._, 4th +edition, published 1810, the author, after mentioning the necessity of a +surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the character of any wound, adds +that "this is particularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as any +man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mortally wounded, he is forthwith, +while still living and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to this +effect, as I quote from memory. That such horrid barbarity was not +practised in 1810, it is needless to say; and if it had been usual at any +previous period, Smollett and other writers who have exposed with unsparing +hand all the defects in the naval system of their day, would have scarcely +left this unnoticed when they attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing +ever occurred, even in the worst of times, it must have been an isolated +case. I have not met elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the +atrocity recorded in it, and would be glad of more information on the +subject. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Turlehydes._--During the great famine in Ireland land in 1331, it is said +that-- + + "The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential + relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish, + called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on + shore at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty + feet long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of + the fish could not see one another."--_The History and Antiquities of + the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts_, by Walter Harris, 1766, + p. 265. + +This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of which +still exist. As the term _turlehydes_ is not known to Irish scholars, can +any of the readers of "N. & Q." say what precise animal is meant by it, or +give any derivation or reference for the term? + +U. U. + +Dublin. + +_Foreign Orders--Queen of Bohemia._--It is well known that in some foreign +Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon ladies. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whether the Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia, +formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy, at any time conferred its +decorations upon ladies; and whether the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards +Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration of any foreign order conferred +upon her? In a portrait of her she is represented with a star or badge upon +the upper part of the left arm. + +S. E. G. + +_Pickard Family._--Is the _Pickard_, or _Picard_, family, a branch of which +is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If so, who were the _first +settlers_ in England; and also in what county are they most numerous? + +ONE OF THE FAMILY. + +Bradford. + +{11} + +_Irish Chieftains._--Some account of the following, _Historical +Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other Irish +Chieftains_, privately printed, 1843, is requested by + +JOHN MARTIN. + +Woburn Abbey. + +_General Braddock._--Can any of your readers furnish me with information +relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against Fort Du Quesne, +and its details, are well known; but I should like to know something more +of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or two of him, and +mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think too he was of +Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of Braddock in +existence? + +SERVIENS. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex._--A most extraordinary custom exists, in a +manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what is called the "Lawless +Court." This court is held at midnight, by torch-light, in the centre of a +field, on the first Friday after the 29th Sept., and is presided over by +the steward of the manor, who, however, appoints a deputy to fulfil this +part of his duty. The tenants of the manor are obliged to attend to answer +to their names, when called upon, under pain of a heavy fine, or at all +events have some one there to respond for them. All the proceedings are +carried on in a whisper, no one speaking above that tone of voice; and the +informations as to deaths, names, &c. are entered in a book by the +president with a piece of charcoal. I may add, the business is not +commenced until a cock has crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a +difficult matter to get Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to +crow, whose fee therefor is 5s. + +Now Morant, in his _History of Essex_, merely cursorily mentions this most +singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin; I should +therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning it. + +RUSSELL GOLE. + + [The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old authors + it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The following + account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by Hearne + from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:--"The manor of + Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the Wednesday nexte + after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and without light, + but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the towne, called the + King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, and not with + inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the same, and do + suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them with as low + a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to the hill + to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely amerced, if + the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as + followeth, viz.: + + 'Curia de domino rege, + Dicta _sine lege_, + Tenta est ibidem, + Per ejusdem consuetudinem, + Ante ortum solis, + Luceat nisi polus, + Seneschallus solus, + Scribit nisi colis. + Clamat clam pro rege + In curia _sine lege_: + Et qui non cito venerit + Citius poenitebit: + Si venerit cum lumine + Errat in regimine. + Et dum sine lumine + Capti sunt in crimine, + Curia sine cura + Jurata de injuria + Tenta est die Mercuriæ + prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'" + + Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that "this + servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants of + divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an + unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."] + +_Motto on old Damask._--Can your correspondents furnish an explanation of +the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask table napkins which +were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a shop in the ordinary way, +but privately, from the family to whom they belonged. I presume the larger +characters, if put together, will indicate the date of the event, whatever +that may be, which is referred to in the motto itself. + +The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the +following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as subjoined: + + "SIGNUM PACIS DATUR LORICÆ." + +the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's, and +written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be explained. + +H. + + [The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to the + warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France in + the year 1763. This event is noticed in the _Annual Register_, and in + most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of France + for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in earnest, + the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov. 3rd). In + spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were approved + of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a treaty was + finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were probably a + gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the custom of + noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. & Q.," Vol. + v., p. 585.] + +{12} + +_Explanation of the Word "Miser."_--Can any of your readers explain how and +when _miser_ came to get the meaning of an avaricious hoarding man? In +Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, II. l. 8., it is used in its nearly primary +sense of "wretch:" + + "Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble _miser's_ sake." + +Again, _Faerie Queene_, II. 3. 8.: + + "The _miser_ threw himself, as an offall, + Straight at his foot in base humility." + +In Milton's _Comus_, which was written about fifty years after the first +three books of the _Faerie Queene,_ the present signification of the word +is complete: + + "You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps + Of _miser's_ treasure by an outlaw's den, + And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope + Danger will sink on opportunity," &c. + +J. D. GARDNER. + +Bottisham. + + [The modern restricted use of the word _miser_ is subsequent to + Shakspeare's time for in Part I. _King Henry VI._, Act V. Sc. 4., + + "Decrepit _miser_! base ignoble wretch!" + + Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a + _miserable_ creature. So in the interlude of _Jacob and Esau_, 1568: + + "But as for these _misers_ within my father's tent." + + Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of _Croesus_, 1604: + + "Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss, + A _miser_ that in miserie remains." + + Otway, however, in his _Orphan_, published in 1680, uses it for a + covetous person: + + "Though she be dearer to my soul than rest + To weary pilgrims, or to _misers_ gold, + Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee." + + So also does Pope: + + "No silver saints by dying _misers_ given, + Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven." + +_"Acis and Galatea."_--Is there any good evidence in support of the +commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's _Acis and Galatea_ +were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are said to have been +written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand to refer to; but I +find the same statement repeated by various other musical historians, +without, however, any authority being given for it. The words in question +are not to be found among the _Poems on several Occasions_, by Mr. John +Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others. Have they ever been included +in any collective edition of his works? + +G. T. + +Reading. + + [In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas + Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to _Acis and Galatea_ "are + said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay." This + serenata is included among Gay's _Poems_ in Dr. Johnson's edition of + the _English Poets_, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's edition of 1810, + and in the complete edition of _British Poets_, Edinburgh, 1794.] + +_Birm-bank._--The bank of a canal opposite to the towing-path is called the +_birm-bank_. What is the derivation of this? + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + + [The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_), + which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or + five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss, + designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth + from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is + generally planted with quickset hedge.] + +_General Thomas Gage._--This officer commanded at Boston at the breaking +out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock. Where can I find +any details of the remainder of his history? + +SERVIENS. + + [An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the + _Georgian Æra_, vol. ii. p. 67.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +RAPPING NO NOVELTY. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.) + +The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should like to +know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially as there +seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other grounds one +would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the work which he +quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement, some correspondent +would be so good as to state whether it has the sanction of Baxter: + + "Mr. Baxter, in his _Historical Discourse of Apparitions_, writes thus: + 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of + my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank, + who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall into + the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his + brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself + sober, something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a + wainscot. When they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud + noises on other parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have + often watched him, and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His + brother has often told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman, + to attest it, who avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen + his shoes under the bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them. + They brought the man himself to me, and when we asked {13} him how he + dare sin again after such a warning, he had no excuse. But being + persons of quality, for some special reason of worldly interest I must + not name him.'"--De Foe's _Life of Duncan Campbell_, 2nd ed. p. 107. + +After this story, De Foe says: + + "Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself + personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or + familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of + Wiltshire," &c. + +But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from +Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in +Beaumont's _Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of +Spirits_, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's +saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know +anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar +inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been +answered. + +S. R. MAITLAND. + + * * * * * + +OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER. + +(Vol. viii., p. 535.) + +From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's +Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to MR. +LATHBURY'S. This volume forms part of a collection of books bequeathed to +the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A., formerly of Baliol College: + + A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762. + +In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for the +Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the subsequent +Forms. This is a copy of it: + + "_A Prayer for the Reformed Churches._ + + "O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee, + more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be + Thy Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect, + strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty + wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our + Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at + present enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted + for Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy + people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them + Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the + World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all + may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls, + Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen." + + Form, &c. Fast. 1776. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1778. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1780. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1781. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1782. + + A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other days + immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all + Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c., during + his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788. + +The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch, father +of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection: + + "Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St. + Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself + and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society + for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity + Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and + saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the + cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of + more than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants + preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet + Street."--April 23, 1789. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1793. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1795. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1796. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important + Victories. 1797. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet, + Aug. 1. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the + Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1799. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1800. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1801. + + Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801. + + Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1803. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1804. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1805. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1806. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1807. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1808. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1809. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1810. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1812. + + Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814. + + Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816. + +JOHN MACRAY. + +Oxford. + + * * * * * + +{14} + +CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES. + +(Vol. viii., p. 174.) + +There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is one +full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth +mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only of +late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they are +compared together, the more important and the more striking do the +resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek +literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached that +point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of the +same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh step +in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and Latin, +is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman, in his +_Regal Rome_, has attention to the subject; but his induction does not +appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion respecting +the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin. Pritchard's work +upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but both these authors +have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of Celtic and Latin +words; but it is not _merely_ this we want. What is required is a critical +examination into the comparative structure and formal development of the +two languages, and this is a work still to be accomplished. The later +numbers of Bopp's _Comparative Grammar_ are, I believe, devoted to this +subject, but as they have not been translated, they must be confined to a +limited circle of English readers, and I have not yet seen any reproduction +of the views therein contained in the philological literature of England. + +As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a large +induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the pages of "N. +& Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of connexion" to supply a +groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude by suggesting one or two +"links" that I do not remember to have seen elsewhere. + +1. Is the root of _felix_ to be found in the Irish _fail_, _fate_; the +contraction of the dipththong _ai_ or _ê_ being analogous to that of +_amaïmus_ into _amêmus_? + +2. Is it not probable that _Avernus_, if not corrupted from [Greek: +aornos], is related to _iffrin_, the Irish _inferi_? This derivation is at +any rate more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with +[Greek: Acherôn]. + +3. Were the _Galli_, priests of Cybele, so called as being connected with +fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the Celtic _gal_, a +flame? The word _Gallus_, a Gaul, is of course the same as the Irish _gal_, +a stranger. + +T. H. T. + + * * * * * + +GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY. + +(Vol. viii., p. 468.) + +MR. INGLEBY'S question might easily be the foundation of a geometrical +paper; but as this would not be a desirable contribution, I will endeavour +to keep clear of technicalities, in pointing out how the process described +may give something near to a circle, or may not. + +When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two parts +perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is _symmetrical_ about that +straight line, which may be called an _axis of symmetry_. Thus every +diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular oval has two +axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every regular polygon of an +_odd_ number of sides has an axis joining each corner to the middle of the +opposite sides: every regular polygon of an _even_ number of sides has axes +joining opposite corners, and axes joining the middles of opposite sides. + +When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or curvilinear, +is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of either side which +are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded figure will of +course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If another line be +now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process repeated, the second +line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first perhaps ceases to be one. +If the process be then repeated on the first line, this last becomes an +axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an axis. If this process can be +indefinitely continued, the cuttings must become smaller and smaller, for +the following reason. Suppose, at the outset, the boundary point nearest to +the intersection of the axes is distant from that intersection by, say four +inches; it is clear that we cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a +part of the boundary at less than four inches from the intersection. For +there never is, after any cutting, any approach to the intersection except +what there already was on the other side of the axis employed, before that +cutting was made. If then the cuttings should go on for ever, or +practically until the pieces to be cut off are too small, and _if this take +place all round_, the figure last obtained will be a good representation of +a circle of four inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always +cutting down, at all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we +can never come nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes. + +But it does not follow that the process _will_ go on for ever. We may come +at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of symmetry at once; +and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a curvilinear +boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the proper angle, +it would happen that we should arrive at a {15} _regular_ curved polygon, +having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process would then stop. + +I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere +rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is +still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the +ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters +alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so +many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval. +But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a +perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its +sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be +that of a circle. + +Suppose, as in MR. INGLEBY'S question, that the creases are not at right +angles to each other; supposing the eye and the scissors _perfect_, the +results will be as follows: + +First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the mathematicians +call _incommensurable_ with the whole revolution; that is, suppose that no +repetition of the angle will produce an _exact_ number of revolutions. Then +the cutting will go on for ever, and the result will perpetually approach a +circle. It is easily shown that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has +two axes of symmetry which make an angle incommensurable with the whole +revolution. + +Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the +revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be +repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even, it +is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd, it +is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon. + +Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the +creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of the +creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that fourteen +repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an exact number of +revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular polygon of fourteen +sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had been taken for the +angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have had thirty-four +sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that the number of +ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular appearance. + +Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three or +more axes, whether all passing through one point or not. + +A. DE MORGAN. + + * * * * * + +THE BLACK-GUARD. + +(Vol. viii., p. 414.) + +Some of your correspondents, SIR JAMES E. TENNENT especially, have been +very learned on this subject, and all have thrown new light on what I +consider a very curious inquiry. The following document I discovered some +years ago in the Lord Steward's Offices. Your readers will see its value at +once; but it may not be amiss to observe, that the name in its present +application had its origin in the number of masterless boys hanging about +the verge of the Court and other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and +palace stables; ready with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct, +and rob people on foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow +the Court in its progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys +vile" are the black-guard boys of the following Proclamation. + +PETER CUNNINGHAM. + +At the Board of Green Cloth, +in Windsor Castle, +this 7th day of May, 1683. + +Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and rogues, +commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose fellowes, +vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually haunt and +follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as Wee are +informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that happened in +the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently do commit +divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where they resort, +to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the prevention of which +evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby strictly charge and +command all those so called the Black-guard as aforesaid, with all other +loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and wanderers, who have +intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or stables, that within the +space of twenty-four houres next after the publishing of this order, they +depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and such other punishments as by law are +to be inflicted on them. + + (Signed) + ORMOND. + H. BULKELEY. + H. BROUNCKER. + RICH. MASON. + STE. FOX. + + * * * * * + +THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.) + +The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their doings +were commemorated in the _Weekly Oracle_ (Vol. viii., p. 315.) of February +1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii., p. 480.). There is a +pamphlet, {16} the second edition of which was published in small 4to., in +1703, entitled: + + "The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican + Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head + Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of + January, by their Anthems," &c. &c. + +We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work was +published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a certain +party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and more than +all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest hatred--so bitter, so +intense and malignant, that we feel on reading it that there must be some +exaggeration. + +The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story was +purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious than they +deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular demonstration +he does not tell us, but gives us information he received from a +gentleman-- + + "Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their + Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was + inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as + they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em + was in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly + consisted of Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of + the Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry + White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to + sanctify with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said + Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem, + as they impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with + wine, or other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious + memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd + their country from arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for + the mercenary scribler, to which every man contributed according to his + zeal for the cause, or the ability of his purse. + + "I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as faithfully + as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some persons + that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the author + of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' Head + Club to be true." + +The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; but +they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote here. +They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the serious +productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically heretical. + +EDWARD PEACOCK. + +Bottesford Moors. + + * * * * * + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_The Calotype Process._--I have made any first essay in the calotype +process, following DR. DIAMOND'S directions given in "N. & Q.," and using +Turner's paper, as recommended by him. My success has been quite as great +as I could expect as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to +my own want of skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish, +however, to ask a question as to iodizing the paper. DR. DIAMOND says, lay +the paper on the solution; then _immediately_ remove it, and lay on the dry +side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole +sheet of paper curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to +know, therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to +remain on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on +removal it will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the +dry side to pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on +the solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and +takes some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows +it to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the +glass rod, without floating at all? + +Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction, are +so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given by DR. +DIAMOND, which are the result of experience, that I am sure he will not +mind being troubled with a few inquiries relative to them. + +C. E. F. + +_Hockin's Short Sketch._--Mr. Hockin is so well known as a thoroughly +practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to the fact of his +having published a little brochure entitled _How to obtain Positive and +Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy the latter upon Paper. A +Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in Photography._ As the question of the +_alkalinity_ of the nitrate bath is one which has lately been discussed, we +will give, as a specimen of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his +opinion upon that question: + + "_The sensitizing agent_, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the + ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it + is thus employed: + + "_The silver or nitrate bath._--Nitrate of silver five drachms, + distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion two + drachms. + + "Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and + filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid + with a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being + immersed one minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid[3], and test + again for a minute; and so on, until a claret red is indicated on the + paper. It is necessary to test the bath in a similar manner, frequently + adding half a drop to a drop of dilute acid when required. This + precaution will prevent the fogging due to alkalinity of the bath, so + formidable an obstacle to young hands." + +[Footnote 3: "Dilute nitric acid.--Water fifty parts, nitric acid one +part."] + +_Photographic Society's Exhibition._--The Photographic Society opened their +first Exhibition of {17} Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of +the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk Street, with a _soirée_ on +Tuesday evening last. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the +rooms were crowded not only by members of the Society, but by many of the +most distinguished literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen +and Prince Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in +an examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the +exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it +afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past year, +and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater excellence +might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just one, and +embodied that given afterwards by the most competent authorities. We have +not room this week to enter into any details, but can confidently recommend +our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk Street. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_"Firm was their faith," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 564.).--These lines are to be +found in a poem called "Morwennæ Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by +Masters in 1846, with the title of _Echoes from Old Cornwall_, and written +by the Vicar of Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has +announced as to their merits; but hitherto they have been but little +appreciated by the public. A time will come however, when these and other +compositions of the author will be better known and more duly valued by the +English mind. + +SAXA. + +These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and +appeared in the _British Magazine_ under the anonymous name _Procul_. Of +the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has quoted the second. +The second line should be read "wise _of_ heart," and the third "_firm_ and +trusting hands." With your correspondent, I hope the author's name may be +discovered. + +F. R. R. + +_Vellum-cleaning_ (Vol. viii., p.340.).--In the Polytechnic Institution +there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and paper, beautifully +cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner Temple Lane, Temple, +London. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Wooden Tombs_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--In the church at Brading, Isle of +Wight-- + + "There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William + Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the + rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of + these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour + of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and + gilt, but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."--Barber's + Picturesque Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--In the +_Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 350., +there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against Scotland in the +year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when speaking of the +annular eclipse, he says: + + "The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between + these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to + Dr. Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he + found that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and + which was annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was + twenty-four minutes past one." + +These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are deformed by +the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian writer (at p. 358. +and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own. Having seen that +essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of attending to my +observations, he would not read them, and got into a passion against the +friend who showed the MS. to me. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).--The lines on Woman are, +I presume, an altered version of those of Barret (Mrs. Barrett Browning?); +they are the finale of a short poem on Woman; the correct version is the +following: + + "Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died + Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied; + While even the Apostle left Him to His doom, + She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb." + +I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for +insertion. + +MA. L. + + [Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel + passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present + correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem. + Besides, it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from + the poem entitled _Woman_, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see antè, pp. + 350. 423.).] + +_Satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.).--In a note just received by me from Canton, +an American friend of mine remarks as follows: + + "When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_ + (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin, + and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to + imitate the Chinese _sz-tün_, have {18} approximated closely to it, and + to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place + referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c." + +I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote, +have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my +Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown +the above extract. + +W. T. M. + +Hong Kong. + +_"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).-- + + "BIERVE, _N. Maréchal_, _Marquis de_, a Frenchman well known for his + ready wit and great facetiousness. He wrote two plays of considerable + merit, _Les Réputations_ and _Le Séducteur_. He died at Spa, 1789, aged + 42. He is author of the distich on courtezans: + + 'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante? + Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'" + +--Lemprière's _Universal Biography_, abridged from the larger work, London, +1808. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + +_Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that +Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma +tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according +to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's +_Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a +few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The +authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86. +2.: + + "Nec retro lego Sotaden cinædum." + +ZEUS. + +_The Third Part of "Christabel"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.).--Has the +_Irish Quarterly Review_ any other reason for ascribing this poem to Maginn +than the common belief which makes him the sole and original Morgan +Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little value, as, exclusive of some +pieces under that name which have been avowed by other writers, many of the +Odoherty papers contain palpable internal evidence of having been written +by a Scotchman, or at least one very familiar with Scotland, which at that +time he was not; even the letter accompanying the third part of +_Christabel_ is dated from Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove +nothing, the circumstances above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence +as to the time when Maginn's contributions to _Blackwood_ commenced, seems +strongly presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most +distinguished writers in _Blackwood_ are still alive, and could, no doubt, +clear up this point at once, if so inclined. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Attainment of Majority_ (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).--In my last +communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to prove +that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think, A. E. B. +will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man attains his +majority commence at six o'clock A.M., or at midnight? We must remember +that we are dealing with a question of _English_ law; and therefore the +evidence of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the +latter mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B. +has defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. _Roman_. + +In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said: + + "It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at eleven + at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his age + at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies, it + is a good will, for he was then of age."--_Salkeld_, 44.; _Raymond_, + 480, 1096; 1 _Siderfin_, 162. + +In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six hours +before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not regarding +the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves that the +day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at midnight. + +RUSSELL GOLE. + +_Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton_ (Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.).--In answer +to J. W. J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in my possession a codicil +of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated 26th of January, 1737. This +document refers to some theological tracts by Sir Isaac Newton, in his +handwriting, which I have. On referring to the pedigree of the Barton +family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married Catherine Greenwood, +whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of Messrs. Greenwood, +army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who married Elizabeth +Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find no mention of Colonel +Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been previously connected with that of +Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of Barton Segrave, having married Jane +Barton of Brigstock. The writer of this note will be obliged if J. W. J., +or any correspondent of "N. & Q.," will inform him if anything is known +respecting an ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or +Marchant, which is said to have been an excellent likeness. + +S. X. + + [The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in the + British Museum.] + +_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. viii., p. 2.).--I cannot but think that MR. +HASLEDEN'S memory has deceived him as to the "wicked lord" having {19} +settled his estates upon the marriage of his son; how is this to be +reconciled with the often published statement, that the marriage of his son +with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the admiral, and aunt of the late and +present lords, was made not only without the consent, but in spite of the +opposition, of the old lord, and that he never forgave his son in +consequence? + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).--In connexion with a Query which +was kindly noticed by MR. ALGOR of Sheffield, who did not however +communicate anything new to me, I would ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq., +formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750, +I find recorded in the Obituary of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that +year? I am also desirous to ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton +of St. Helens, whose daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes, +Esq., ancestor of the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died +since 1696. Both Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons +of Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query +referred. + +E. H. A. + +_Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus_ (Vol. viii., p. +563.).--In answer to MR. GANTILLON'S inquiry for the above translation, I +beg to state that it will be found appended to an octavo edition of +Hodgson's poem of _Lady Jane Grey_. + +In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work before +me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which BALLIOLENSIS +inquiries. The justly admired translation of _Edwin and Angelina_, to which +the latter refers, was by Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The +splendid pentameter is slightly misquoted by BALLIOLENSIS. It is not-- + + "Poscimus in _terris_ pauca, nec illa diù." + +but-- + + "Poscimus in _vitâ_," &c. + +THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER. + +Wymeswold, Loughborough. + +_Wylcotes' Brass_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--I should hardly have supposed +that any difficulty could exist in explaining the inscription: + + "In · on · is · all." + +To me it appears self-evident that it must be-- + + "In one (God) is my all." + +H. C. C. + +_Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c_. (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--I would +refer J. B. WHITBORNE to _The Antiquities of Berkshire_ (so miscalled), by +Elias Ashmole; where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has +given the inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing _and legible in his +time_. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was ever +of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy +Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 the +manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the +brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566, +ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not +1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly +given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, +threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by +Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural +son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no crest nor +motto. + +H. C. C. + +_The Keate Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)--Should the Query of +G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. Burke's +_Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_ relating to the Keate family, +as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be able, on +application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars which are +not noticed in Mr. Burke's works. + +H. C. C. + +_Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the +translator of _Cassandra_, died in 1687. (See Fuller's _Worthies_, by +Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.) + +[Greek: Halieus]. + +Dublin. + +_Huc's Travels_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--Not having seen the _Gardener's +Chronicle_, in which C. W. B. says the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in +Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some +Parisian _littérateur_, I cannot know what degree of credit, if any, is to +be given to such a statement. All I wish to communicate at present for the +information of your Querist C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account +and abstract of Messrs. Huc and Gabet's _Travels_ in one of the ablest and +best conducted French reviews, _La Revue des Deux Mondes_; in which not the +least suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed +as to the genuineness of these _Travels_. Mr. Princep, also, in his work on +Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and avails himself +extensively of the information contained in them with reference to +Buddhism, &c. + +Should the writer in the _Gardener's Chronicle_ have it in his power to +_prove_ the _Travels_ to be a fabrication, he will confer a benefit on the +world of letters by unmasking the fabricator. + +J. M. + +Oxford. + +_Pictures at Hampton Court Palace_ (Vol. viii., p. 538.).--In reply to +[Phi].'s question when the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King {20} +George III., after the Prince of Wales assumed the command of that +regiment, I beg to state that the Prince entered the army as +brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the regiment received the title of "The +Prince of Wales's own Regiment of Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783: +that the regiment was stationed in the south of England and in the vicinity +of London for many years, from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George +III. repeatedly reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family. +That the Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in +1793, and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That +the regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799; +and the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's +orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance and +performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted in +1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free from +errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852. + +M. A. + +Pembroke College, Oxon. + +_John Waugh_ (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).--Does KARLEOLENSIS know +whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to +whom? + +Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and +thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of +Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire. + +Exeter. + +_Daughters taking their Mothers' Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--When +BURIENSIS asks for instances of this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of +Ada," as an example, is he not mistaking, or following some one else who +has mistaken, the _gender_ of the parent's name? _Alicia fil. Adæ_ would be +rendered "Alice Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to +determine the gender otherwise. + +J. SANSOM. + +"_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--This proverbial +saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under which the +lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before admitting the +heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase. On which +occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or heir, +"fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being generally a +year's rent or service. + +ANON. + +_Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver_ (Vol. viii., p. 340.).--If your +correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the anecdote here alluded +to, I think I can confidently refer him to any biographical notice of +Grindling Gibbons--to whom the story of the "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons +was recommended to Sir Christopher by Evelyn, I think; but not having "made +a note of it," I am not sure that it is to be found in his _Diary_.[4] If +there be any monograph Life of Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found +there. + +M. (2) + +[Footnote 4: See Evelyn's _Diary_, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition +1850.--ED.] + +_Souvaroff's Despatch_ (Vol. viii., p. 490).--Souvaroff's doggerel despatch +from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, misspelt and +mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have never yet seen in +English, a correct version of it: + + "Slava Bogou, slava Vam; + Krépost vziala, ee ya tam." + + "Glory to God, glory to You, + The fortress is taken, and I am there." + +DMITRI ANDRÉEF. + +_Detached Church Towers_ (Vol. viii., p. 63.).--In the lists I have seen no +mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church, which stands at a +distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the church. + +W. B. D. + +Lynn. + +_Queen Anne's Motto_ (Vol. viii., p. 174.).--The Historical Society of +Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms, painted on wood +in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top, and the motto +_Semper eadem_ on the scroll below. It probably was in one of the +Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the Revolution. + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Lawyers' Bags_ (Vol. vii. _passim_).--The communication of MR. KERSLEY, in +p. 557., although it does not support the inference which COL. LANDMAN +draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in consequence of the +unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen Caroline, seems to +show that _green_ was at one time the colour of those professional pouches. +The question still remains, when and on what occasion it was discontinued; +and when the purple, and when the crimson, were introduced? + +When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior barrister +presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one had been +presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was advancing in +practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his increase of +business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his papers. It was then +a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a junior was rising {21} in +his profession. I do not know whether the same custom prevailed in the +other courts. + +CAUSIDICUS. + +In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The custom +has declined of late years among the members of the legal profession, and +it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers, who thus carry +their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now the badge of a +cordwainer in this city. + +[Old English W]. + +Philadelphia. + +_Bust of Luther_ (Vol. viii., p. 335.).--MR. J. G. FITCH asks for +information respecting a bust of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall +of a house, in the Dom Platz at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned, +through a German acquaintance, who has resided the greater part of his life +in that city, that the effigy was erected to commemorate the event of +Luther's having, during a short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot; +and that the words surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He +adds that Luther at no period of his life "lived for some years" at +Frankfort, as stated by MR. FITCH. + +ALFRED SMITH. + +_Grammar in relation to Logic_ (Vol. viii., pp. 514. 629.).--H. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Other: George Bell + +Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27614] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES, QUERIES, JANUARY 7, 1854 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><!-- Page 1 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page1"></a>{1}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle</span>.</h3> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:25%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Vol.</span> IX.—No. 219.</b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, January 7. 1854</span></b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:25%"> + <p><b>Price Fourpence.<br />Stamped Edition 5<i>d.</i></b></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="Contents" title="Contents"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:94%"> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:5%"> + <p>Page</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Our Ninth Volume</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page3">3</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page3">3</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page5">5</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 1650-51, by John Bruce</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page6">6</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page7">7</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page8">8</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes</span>:—Grammars, &c. for + Public Schools—"To captivate"—Bohn's Edition of Matthew + of Westminster—French Season Rhymes and Weather + Rhymes—Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page8">8</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page9">9</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries</span>:—Farrant's + Anthem—Ascension Day Custom—Sawbridge and Knight's + Numismatic Collections—"The spire whose silent finger points to + heaven."—Lord Fairfax—Tailless + Cats—Saltcellar—Arms and Motto granted to Col. William + Carlos—Naval Atrocities—Turlehydes—Foreign Orders: + Queen of Bohemia—Pickard Family—Irish + Chieftains—General Braddock</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page9">9</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with Answers</span>:—Lawless + Court, Rochford, Essex—Motto on old Damask—Explanation of + the Word "Miser"—"Acis and + Galatea"—Birm-bank—General Thomas Gage</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page11">11</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. 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We trust they will be pleased with this change, and + receive it as a proof of our readiness to attend to every reasonable + suggestion for the improve of "<span class="sc">Notes and + Queries</span>." We can assure them that it is no less our desire to do + so than our interest.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.</h3> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<i>Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque + trouvaille à faire, même dans ce qui a été le plus + visité</i>.—Henry <span class="sc">Patin.</span></p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its + bibliographic peculiarities—which may almost pass for romance.</p> + + <p>It is a <i>Scottish</i> work with regard to the family connexion of + its author: it is an <i>Irish</i> work with regard to the place of his + nativity. It is an <i>English</i> work as to the scenes which it + represents; a <i>French</i> work as to the language in which it was + written; a <i>Dutch</i> work as to the country in which it came to light. + It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since borne the name of its + author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it has been twice + printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as fiction: it + is now believed to be history.</p> + + <p>But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must + not add to the number. The work to which I allude is the <i>Mémoires du + comte de Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton</i>.</p> + + <p>The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work + remind me of my <i>portefeuille Hamiltonien</i>, and impose on me the + task of a partial transcription of its contents.</p> + + <p>Of the numerous editions of the <i>Mémoires de Grammont</i> as + recorded by Brunet, Renouard, or Quérard, or left unrecorded by those + celebrated bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to + the critical examination of future editors:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>1. "<i>Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant + particuliérement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le + regne de Charles II.</i> A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. + 12<sup>o</sup>, pp. 4 + 428.</p> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Avis du libraire.</span>—Il seroit inutile de + recommander ici la lecture des mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre + seul de <i>Mémoires du comte de Grammont</i> réveillera sans doute la + curiosité du public pour un homme qui lui est déjà si connu d'ailleurs, + tant par la réputation qu'il a sçu se faire, que par les différens + portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs + ouvrages; et l'on ne doute nullement qu'il ne reçoive, avec beaucoup de + plaisir, un livre, dans lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il + en a bien voulu raconter lui-même à celui qui a pris la peine de dresser + ces mémoires.</p> + + <p>"Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent + particuliè[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le + regne de Charles II; et, comme on y découvre quantité de choses, qui ont + été tenues cachées jusqu'à présent, et qui font voir jusqu'à quel excès + on a porté le déréglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le morceau le + moins intéressant de ces mémoires.</p> + + <p>"On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a reçue de Paris: + et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a été + possible."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The above is the <i>first</i> edition. The imprint is fictitious. It + was much used by the Elzévirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second + edition, with the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de + Sardière, No. 939.). The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. + The <i>avis</i> is omitted in that edition, and in all the later + impressions which I have seen. Its importance as a history of the + publication induces one to revive it. There is also an edition printed at + Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); and another at La Haye in + 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits the edition of 1713. + Renouard and Quérard notice it too briefly.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>2. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée d'un discours préliminaire mêlé de + prose et de vers, par le même auteur, et d'un avertissement contenant + quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton.</i> A Paris, chez la + veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d'or. 1746." 12<sup>o</sup>. pp. + 24 + 408.</p> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Avertissement.</span> Le public a fait un accueil si + favorable à ces <i>Mémoires</i>, que nous avons crû devoir en procurer + une nouvelle edition. Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, + très-piquantes par elles-mêmes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse + d'Angleterre sous le regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs écrits + d'une maniére si vive et si ingénieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de + plaire infiniment, quand la matiére en seroit moins interessante.</p> + + <p>"Le héros de ces <i>Mémoires</i> a trouvé dans le comte Hamilton un + historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la + même main à qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappés au même + coin.</p> + + <p>"Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mêlé de prose et de + vers, où l'on exagére la difficulté qu'il y a de bien répresenter le + comte de Grammont. On reconnoîtra facilement que ce discours est du même + auteur que les <i>Mémoires</i>, et qu'il devoit naturellement en <!-- + Page 4 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page4"></a>{4}</span>orner le + frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en apprécier le + mérite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un goût sûr et délicat + le comparent au <i>Voyage de Chapelle</i>, et qu'ils y trouvent les mêmes + graces, le même naturel et la même légereté.</p> + + <p>"Il ne nous reste plus qu'à dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-même, + auteur de ces mémoires, et du discours qui les précede.</p> + + <p>"Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, étoit de l'ancienne et illustre + maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il nâquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pére le + chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi + duc de Châtelleraud en France.</p> + + <p>"Sa mére étoit madame Marie Butler, sœur du duc d'Ormond, + viceroi d'Irlande, et grand maître de la maison du roi Charles.</p> + + <p>"Dans les révolutions qui arrivérent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent + le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frére qui passérent en France. Ils y + amenérent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit à peine que de naître.</p> + + <p>"Lorsque le roi fut rétabli sur son trône, il ramena en Angleterre les + jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les mémoires de Grammont combien + cette cour étoit brillante; la curiosité y attira le comte de Grammont. + Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas à sentir le pouvoir de + ses charmes, il l'épousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'<i>Antoine</i> + avoit pour sa sœur, qui l'engagea à faire plusieurs voyages en + France, où il étoit élevé, et où il a passé une partie de sa vie.</p> + + <p>"M. Antoine Hamilton étant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en + Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ébranler ni sa religion, ni la + fidélité qu'il devoit à son roi.</p> + + <p>"Le roi Jaques étant monté sur le trône, il lui donna un regiment + d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince, + ayant été obligé de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la + famille royale en France. C'est-là et pendant le long séjour qu'il y a + fait, qu'il a composé les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de + réputation. Il mourut à S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands + sentimens de piété, et après avoir reçu les derniers sacremens. Il étoit + âgé alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a mérité les regrets de tous ceux qui + avoient le bonheur de le connoître. Né sérieux, il avoit dans l'esprit + tous les agrémens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de louanges, à + ces agrémens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit toutes les + qualitéz du cœur."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>If the above <i>avertissement</i> first appeared in 1746, which I have + much reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The + biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later + memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moréri of 1759, we have it almost + <i>verbatim</i>, but taken from the <i>Œuvres du comte Antoine + Hamilton</i>, 1749. Neither Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Quérard notice the + edition of 1746. The copy which I have examined has the book-plate + G. III. R.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>3. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton</i>. + 1760." [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, 1760.] 12<sup>o</sup>. I. + partie, pp. 36 + 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This edition has the same <i>avertissement</i> as that of 1746. The + imprint is <span class="scac">M.DCC.LX</span>. The type resembles our + small pica, and the paper has the water-mark <i>Auvergne</i> 1749. At the + end of the second part appears, <i>De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue + Pavée</i>, 1760. This must be M. François Didot of Paris. I find the same + colophon in the <i>Bibliographie instructive</i>, 1763-8. v. 631. This + very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic trio!</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>4. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton</i>. <i>Nouvelle edition</i>, <i>augmentée de notes et + d'eclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole</i>. Imprimée à + Strawberry-Hill. 1772." 4<sup>o</sup>, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits.</p> + + <p>[Dedication.] "À madame....</p> + + <p>"L'éditeur vous consacre cette édition, comme un monument de son + amitié, de son admiration, et de son respect; à vous, dont les grâces, + l'esprit, et le goût retracent au siècle présent le siècle de Louis + quatorze et les agrémens de l'auteur de ces mémoires."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Such are the inscriptions on the <i>Strawberry-Hill gem</i>. Much has + been said of its brilliancy—and so, for the sake of novelty, I + shall rather dwell on its flaws.</p> + + <p>The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at + Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of + which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions—now + for its flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had + to insert <i>eight</i> accents to make decent French of it! The + <i>avis</i> is a mere medley of fragments: I could not ask a compositor + to set it up! The <i>avertissement</i> is copied, without a word of + intimation to that effect, from the edition of 1746. The notes to the + <i>épître</i> are also copied from that edition, except <i>L'abbé de + Chaulieu</i>; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same + source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in + part taken from an erroneous printed <i>Key</i>. Where are the + <i>éclaircissements</i>? I find none except a list of proper + names—of which about one-third part is omitted!</p> + + <p>In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the <i>Manuel du + libraire</i>, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the <i>avis</i> + prefixed to the <i>Œuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton</i>, 1812; in + quoting Quérard, to <i>La France littéraire</i>, 1827-39. The other + references are to sale catalogues. The titles of the books described, and + the extracts, are given <i>literatim</i>, and, except as above noted, + with the same accentuation and punctuation.</p> + + <p>To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French + text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made. + That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque!</p> + + <p>The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of + the editions of 1713 and 1746—the rectification of the names of + persons <!-- Page 5 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page5"></a>{5}</span>and places—a revision of the + punctuation—and a strict conformity, as to general orthography and + accentuation, with the <i>Dictionnaire de l'Académie française</i>, as + edited in 1835. The substance of the <i>avis</i> of 1713 might be stated + in a preface; and the <i>avertissement</i> of 1746, a clever composition, + would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt + its value may consult the <i>Grand dictionnaire historique</i>, and the + <i>Biographie universelle</i>. As one hundred and sixty persons are + noticed in the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would + require much research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave + would, however, be very serviceable—more so, I conceive, than the + printed notes of M. Horace Walpole.</p> + + <p>As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I + shall conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid + the <i>jolie édition</i> printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, <i>par ordre de + monseigneur le comte d'Artois</i>, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen + of editorship. Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a + piratical pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible + books; the portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be + chiefly copies of prints—not <i>d'après des tableaux originaux</i>. + The most desirable editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772, + as a <i>curiosity</i>; 3. That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812, + 18<sup>o</sup>. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by M. Renouard in 1812, + 8<sup>o</sup>. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms part of the + <i>Œuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton</i> in 3 vols. It seldom occurs + for sale.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Bolton Corney</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THE "ANCREN RIWLE."</h3> + + <p>The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise + on the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society, + under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable, + and both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who + are interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in + the subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably + executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks + on the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton + is unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen + College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original + vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by + permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and + after reading and making extracts from it<a name="footnotetag1" + href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, I came to the same conclusion as + Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the + internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts + containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that + Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original + author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have + not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident + that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop + Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the + oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made + in it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the + printed edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been, + with advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are + passed over. Thus, at p. 8., for <i>unweote</i> the second hand has + <i>congoun</i>; at p. 62., for <i>herigen</i> it has <i>preisen</i>; at + p. 90., for <i>on cheafle</i>, it reads <i>o muþe</i>, &c. The + original hand has also some remarkable variations, which would cause a + suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work. Thus, at p. + 12., for <i>scandle</i>, the first hand has <i>schonde</i>; at p. 62., + for <i>baldeliche</i> it reads <i>bradliche</i>; at p. 88., for <i>nout + for</i>, it has <i>anonden</i>, and the second hand <i>aneust</i>; at p. + 90., for <i>sunderliche</i> it reads <i>sunderlepes</i>, &c. All + these, and many other curious variations, are not noticed in the printed + edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written, in a hand of the time of + Edward I., as follows: "<i>Datum abbatie et conventui de Leghe per Dame + M. de Clare.</i>" The lady here referred to was doubtless Maud de Clare, + second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford and Gloucester, who, at + the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known to have changed the + Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an abbess and nuns of + the same order; and it was probably at the same period she bestowed this + volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop Poore, who died + in 1237, might have been the original author of the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>, + is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error as to + Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to + Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the + fly-leaves of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their + respective contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is + more blamable, and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but + (as remarked by Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of + the work. The real fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged + Latin version of the seven books of the <i>Riwle</i> now preserved in + Magdalen College, and this supposition may well enough be reconciled with + the words of Leland, who says of him,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Edidit inter cætera, libros <i>septem</i> de Vita Solitaria, <!-- + Page 6 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page6"></a>{6}</span>ad Virgines + Tarentinas, Duriæ cultrices."—<i>Comment</i>., p. 316.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian + collection (Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been + recovered from the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of + 1731. I am happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the + manuscript marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of + the <i>Riwle</i>, made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing + with the vernacular text), has been entirely restored, except that the + top margins of the leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This + damage has, unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the + treatise, and the title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's + note. This copy of the French version appears to be unique, and is the + more interesting from its having a note at the end (now half obliterated + by the fire), stating that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of + Gloucester, whose motto is also added, "<i>Plesance. M [mil]. en vn</i>." + The personage in question was Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, + Earl of Hereford, and wife of Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as + a nun in the convent at Barking in 1399. Is any other instance known of + the use of this motto? Before I conclude these brief remarks, I may + mention a <i>fifth</i> copy of the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>, which has escaped + the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the enormous folio manuscript + of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon MS., in the Bodleian + Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and occurs at pp. + 371<sup>b</sup>.—392. In the table of contents prefixed to this + volume it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the + phraseology is somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS. + Cleopatra C. vi, than with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition + is printed. This copy is not complete, some leaves having been cut out in + the sixth book, and the scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed + edition.</p> + + <p>It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task + of editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same + age as the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>, still existing in various manuscripts. + One of the homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34., + Cott. MS. Titus D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17<span + class="scac">A</span>. xxvii., is very curious, and well deserves to be + printed.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. Madden</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">British Museum.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a + href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p>At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my extracts + read "yze."</p> + +</div> +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY, +A.D. 1650-51.</h3> + + <p>At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant + children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds, + it may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order + addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which + applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that + some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those + with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment + between vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of + observation.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + +<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">By the Mayor</span>.</p> + + <p>"Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to + put in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants, + and passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great + scandall and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These + are therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call + before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to + charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty + of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant + that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end the + said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the several + persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are further + to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not fit to + work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where they + dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging, shal + give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she were + taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. <i>And for children + under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give an account + of their parents, the parish where they are found are to provide for + them; and for those which shall bee found lying under stalls, having no + habitation or parents (from five to nine years old), are to be sent to + the Wardrobe House</i><a name="footnotetag2" + href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, <i>to be provided for by the + corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be sent + to Bridewel.</i> And for men or women who are able to work and goe + begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be passed + to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken againe, they + are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according to the + discretion of the governours. <i>And for those persons that shal be found + to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking, those children + are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel, and the persons so + hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed away, or kept at work + there, according to the governour's discretion.</i> And for al other + vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to be forthwith sent + down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected, according to the statute + laws of this commonwealth, except before excepted; and the president and + governours of Bridewel are hereby desired to meet twice every week to see + to the execution of this Precept. <i>And the steward of the workehouse + called the Wardrobe, is <!-- Page 7 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page7"></a>{7}</span>authorised to receive into that house such + children as are of the age between five and nine, as is before specified + and limited</i>; and the said steward is from time to time to acquaint + the corporation for the poor, what persons are brought in, to the end + they may bee provided for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January, + 1650.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Sadler</span>." </p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Bruce</span>.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a + href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + <p>I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the name of + The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's Wardrobe. + It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.</p> + +</div> +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.</h3> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Sir,</p> + + <p>I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. & Q.," transcripts + of half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose + correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve,</p> + +</blockquote> + + <div class="contents"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Yours faithfully,</p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Henry Ellis</span>.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="address">British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853.</p> + +<h3>I.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Dean Swift to</i> * * * * * * *.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. <i>Orig</i>.]</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p class="author">Belcamp, Mar. 14th.</p> + + <p>Sir,</p> + + <p>Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his + house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a + plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him in + the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks to + cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no longer. Mr. + Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object to be + received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story naturally, + and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him curable, and it + be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you will receive + him.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <div class="contents"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I am, Sir,</p> + <p class="i1">Your most humble Servt.</p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Jonath. Swift</span>.</p> + </div> + </div> + +<h3>II.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley</i>.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. <i>Orig</i>.]</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p class="author">Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718].</p> + + <p>Worthy Sir</p> + + <p>I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for + me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the University + (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation) that you could + recover the Book, or at least could find where it is lodged, that Mr. + Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume, may be done.</p> + + <p>If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a + great discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and + began to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of + Ely's Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been + printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no + name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's Tullie's + Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the first on + vellum, the other on paper.</p> + + <p>May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as + Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of + Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether either + of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen four or + five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by Grafton, + except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a great Rarity, + if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It varies from all the + other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest, I think, in 1549. One + reason of my enquiry is, because I want the Title, for the date is at the + end of the Book, and indeed twice; both on the end of the Communion + Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your pardon for so small an enquiry, + whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg and Nic. Jenson. My business + consists much in trifles.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <div class="contents"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I am, Sir,</p> + <p class="i1">Your most ob. humble</p> + <p class="i2">Servant,</p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Tho. Baker</span>.</p> + </div> + </div> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the<br /> + Riding Hood Shop, the corner<br /> + of Chandois and Bedford Streets,<br /> + Covent Garden,<br /> + + London.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small + scores."</p> + +<h3>III.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to +the Rev. Mr. Amory of Taunton, dated Dunsland, +March</i> 7, 1731.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.]</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation + to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of the + Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly transacted + that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it were sent + him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after the thing was + finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these Letters and other + papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his History, and which + were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was chancellor, told Morrice's + Grandson that if he would file a Bill in Chancery, he would endeavour to + get them; but young Morrice having deserted the Whig Interest, was <!-- + Page 8 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page8"></a>{8}</span>prevailed + upon to let it drop. This I know to be fact, for I had it not only from + the last-mentioned Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son + of the Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity + of searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one + time or other I design to publish together with the account of that + affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him say + that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the least + of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the Nation, + had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke of York) + to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to their + Infamy.</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p class="cenhead">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.</h3> + + <p>On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village + and church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested + by the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect + position on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They + proved to be those which once had covered and protected the grave of the + good Archbishop Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that + parish, and that of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it + appeared that their remains had been deposited within a small chapel on + the south side of the chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family, + of Broadhurst, in the parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither + in 1674, and resided with his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward + Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly + mentioned by the biographers of Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an + ancient mansion, the residence formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated + about a mile north of the village of Horsted. There it was that Leighton + made his will, in February, 1683; but his death occurred, it will be + remembered, in singular accordance with his desire often expressed, at an + inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London.</p> + + <p>The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an + arch now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a + school-room; more recently, however, either through its becoming out of + repair, or from some other cause, the little structure was demolished. + The large slabs which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his + brother were taken up and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now + covers the space thus thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to + mark the position of the graves, which in all probability, ere many years + elapse, will be disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the + ashes of Leighton scattered to the winds.</p> + + <p>In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies + of bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so + well carried out by <span class="sc">Mr. Markland</span> in regard to the + grave of Bishop Ken, shall we not make an effort to preserve from + desecration and oblivion the resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton + for his learning and piety, so worthy to be held in honoured remembrance + for his high principles and his consistent conduct in an evil age?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Albert Way</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Notes.</h2> + + <p><i>Grammars, &c. for Public Schools.</i>—Would it not be + desirable for some correspondents of "N. & Q." to furnish information + respecting grammars, classics, and other works which have been written + for the various public schools? Such information might be useful to book + collectors; and would also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose + learned masters have prepared such books. My contribution to the list is + small: but I remember a valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. + —— Hook, formerly head master of the College School at + Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as also a peculiar English + grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master of St. Mary de Crypt + School, in the same place, for the use of that school. I also possess a + copy (1640) of the <i>Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia</i>, for the use of + Abingdon School, and <i>Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of the + Hebrews</i> (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written + after he ceased to be master of the schools.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">P. H. Fisher</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Stroud.</p> + + <p>"<i>To captivate.</i>"—Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the + Americans (January 9th, 1819), says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"They sometimes, I see, use the word <i>captivate</i> thus: 'Five or + six ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Originally, the words <i>to captivate</i> were synonymous with <i>to + capture</i>, and the expression was used with reference to warlike + operations. To captivate the affections was a secondary use of the + phrase. The word is used in the original sense in many old English books. + It is not used so now in the United States.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p> + + <p><i>Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster.</i>—Under the year + <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 782, the translator informs us that + "Hirenes and <i>his</i> son Constantine became emperors." Such an emperor + is not to be found <!-- Page 9 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page9"></a>{9}</span>in the annals of Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge, + who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon, had referred to him on this + occasion, he would probably have found that the Empress Irene, a name + dear to the reverencers of images, was the person meant. The original + Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this empress, who is + considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the deposition and + blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily + forgotten.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden</span>.</p> + + <p><i>French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.—</i></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"A la Saint-Antoine (17th January)</p> + <p>Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"A la Saint-Barnabé (11th June)</p> + <p>La faux au pré."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"A la Sainte-Cathérine (25th November)</p> + <p>Tout bois prend racine."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Passé la Saint-Clément (23rd November)</p> + <p>Ne sème plus froment."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Si l'hiver va droit son chemin,</p> + <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.)</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"S'il n'arreste tant ne quant,</p> + <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Clément." (23rd Nov.)</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombrée,</p> + <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-André." (30th Nov.)</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ceyrep</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.—</i></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus</p> + <p>Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua.</p> + <p>Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus.</p> + <p>Cælum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris.</p> + <p class="i2">Ob<sup>t</sup>. 27 Mar. 1624. Æt. 77."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole,</p> + <p>Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul;</p> + <p>But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name,</p> + <p>Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame.</p> + <p>A priest of priests, inferior was to none,</p> + <p>Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run.</p> + <p>Thus ends the record of this pious man;</p> + <p>Go and do likewise, reader, if you can."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">C. K. P.</p> + + <p class="address">Newport, Essex.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + +<h3>DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.</h3> + + <p>In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund + Burke," which appeared in the <i>Athenæum</i> of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th + (and to which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & + Q." as have not yet seen it), the writer observes:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to + infer from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or + document of any kind—except a mysterious fragment of one + letter—relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long + after Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from + parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother, + or brother to sister."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference + drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the + grounds which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in + writings is to call attention to a source from which, if any such letters + exist, they may yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of + professed collectors of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be + conceived that the destroyer of these materials for the history of the + Burkes, be he who he may, can have got <i>all</i> the family + correspondence into his possession. On the other, it is far from + improbable that in some of the collections to which I have alluded, some + letters, notes, or documents may exist, treasured by the possessors as + mere autographs; but which might, if given to the world, serve to solve + many of those mysteries which envelope the early history of Edmund Burke. + The discovery of documents of such a character seems to be the special + province of "N. & Q.," and I hope, therefore, although this letter + has extended far beyond the limits I originally contemplated, you will + insert it, and so permit me to put this Query to autograph collectors, + "Have you any documents illustrative of the Burkes?" and to add as a + Note, "If so, print them!"</p> + + <p class="author">N. O.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Farrant's Anthem.</i>—From what source did Farrant take the + words of his well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?"</p> + + <p class="author">C. F. S.</p> + + <p><i>Ascension Day Custom.</i>—What is the origin of the custom + which still obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting + the clergy with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day?</p> + + <p class="author">C. F. S.</p> + + <p><i>Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections.</i>—In + Snelling's tract on <i>Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver + Coins</i> (1769), p. 45., it is stated, in the description of a gold Coin + of Elizabeth, that it is "unique, formerly in the collection of Thomas + Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the collection of Thomas Knight, Esq., + who purchased the whole cabinet."—Can any of your readers inform me + who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his collection is still in + existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what manner? I am not + aware of any sale catalogue under his name.</p> + + <p class="author">J. B. B.</p> + + <p><i>"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."</i>—I have + met with, and sometimes quoted, this line. <!-- Page 10 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page10"></a>{10}</span>Who is its author, and in + what poem does it occur?</p> + + <p class="author">J. W. T.</p> + + <p class="address">Dewsbury.</p> + + <p><i>Lord Fairfax.</i>—In the <i>Peerage of Scotland</i> I find + this entry:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of + Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship + resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of + that family taking a part in Scotch affairs. <i>Cameron</i> is, I + suppose, the parish of that name in the east of Fife.</p> + + <p>I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, + the barony was created?</p> + + <p>2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in + Scotland, if they ever held any?</p> + + <p>3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? + If so, is he known and addressed as <i>Lord</i> Fairfax, or how?</p> + + <p>4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of + the United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to + exercise the functions of a peer of Scotland, <i>e.g.</i> in the election + of representative peers?</p> + + <p>5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, + expressly or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly + renounces allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is + retained on the roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the + throne, and whose existence is a denial of the first proposition in the + constitution of his country?</p> + + <p>Perhaps <span class="sc">Uneda</span>, W. W., or some other of your + Philadelphia correspondents, will be good enough to notice the third of + these Queries.</p> + + <p class="author">W. H. M.</p> + + <p><i>Tailless Cats.</i>—A writer in the <i>New York Literary + World</i> of Feb. 7, 1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of + tails, which are found in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx + correspondent will say whether this is a fact or a Jonathan.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Shirley Hibberd.</span></p> + + <p><i>Saltcellar.</i>—Can any of your readers gainsay that in + saltcellar the cellar is a mere corruption of <i>salière</i>? A list of + compound words of Saxon and French origin might be curious.</p> + + <p class="author">H. F. B.</p> + + <p><i>Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos.</i>—Can any + reader of "N. & Q." give the <i>date</i> of the grant of arms to Col. + William Carlos (who assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal + Oak," after the battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the + grant?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">μ</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Naval Atrocities.</i>—In the article on "Wounds," in the + <i>Encyc. Brit.</i>, 4th edition, published 1810, the author, after + mentioning the necessity of a surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on + the character of any wound, adds that "this is particularly necessary on + board ship, where, as soon as any man is pronounced by the surgeon to be + mortally wounded, he is forthwith, while still living and conscious, + thrown overboard," or words to this effect, as I quote from memory. That + such horrid barbarity was not practised in 1810, it is needless to say; + and if it had been usual at any previous period, Smollett and other + writers who have exposed with unsparing hand all the defects in the naval + system of their day, would have scarcely left this unnoticed when they + attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing ever occurred, even in the + worst of times, it must have been an isolated case. I have not met + elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the atrocity recorded in + it, and would be glad of more information on the subject.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden.</span></p> + + <p><i>Turlehydes.</i>—During the great famine in Ireland land in + 1331, it is said that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential + relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish, + called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on shore + at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty feet + long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of the fish + could not see one another."—<i>The History and Antiquities of the + City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts</i>, by Walter Harris, 1766, p. + 265.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of + which still exist. As the term <i>turlehydes</i> is not known to Irish + scholars, can any of the readers of "N. & Q." say what precise animal + is meant by it, or give any derivation or reference for the term?</p> + + <p class="author">U. U.</p> + + <p class="address">Dublin.</p> + + <p><i>Foreign Orders—Queen of Bohemia.</i>—It is well known + that in some foreign Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon + ladies. Can any of your correspondents inform me whether the Order of the + Annunciation of Sardinia, formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy, + at any time conferred its decorations upon ladies; and whether the + Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration + of any foreign order conferred upon her? In a portrait of her she is + represented with a star or badge upon the upper part of the left arm.</p> + + <p class="author">S. E. G.</p> + + <p><i>Pickard Family.</i>—Is the <i>Pickard</i>, or <i>Picard</i>, + family, a branch of which is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If + so, who were the <i>first settlers</i> in England; and also in what + county are they most numerous?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">One of the Family.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Bradford.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 11 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page11"></a>{11}</span></p> + + <p><i>Irish Chieftains.</i>—Some account of the following, + <i>Historical Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other + Irish Chieftains</i>, privately printed, 1843, is requested by</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Martin.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Woburn Abbey.</p> + + <p><i>General Braddock.</i>—Can any of your readers furnish me with + information relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against + Fort Du Quesne, and its details, are well known; but I should like to + know something more of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or + two of him, and mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think + too he was of Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of + Braddock in existence?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Serviens.</span></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries with Answers.</h2> + + <p><i>Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex.</i>—A most extraordinary + custom exists, in a manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what + is called the "Lawless Court." This court is held at midnight, by + torch-light, in the centre of a field, on the first Friday after the 29th + Sept., and is presided over by the steward of the manor, who, however, + appoints a deputy to fulfil this part of his duty. The tenants of the + manor are obliged to attend to answer to their names, when called upon, + under pain of a heavy fine, or at all events have some one there to + respond for them. All the proceedings are carried on in a whisper, no one + speaking above that tone of voice; and the informations as to deaths, + names, &c. are entered in a book by the president with a piece of + charcoal. I may add, the business is not commenced until a cock has + crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a difficult matter to get + Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to crow, whose fee therefor + is 5<i>s.</i></p> + + <p>Now Morant, in his <i>History of Essex</i>, merely cursorily mentions + this most singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin; + I should therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning + it.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Russell Gole.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old + authors it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The + following account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by + Hearne from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:—"The + manor of Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the + Wednesday nexte after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and + without light, but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the + towne, called the King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, + and not with inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the + same, and do suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them + with as low a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to + the hill to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely + amerced, if the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as + followeth, viz.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'Curia de domino rege,</p> + <p>Dicta <i>sine lege</i>,</p> + <p>Tenta est ibidem,</p> + <p>Per ejusdem consuetudinem,</p> + <p class="i1">Ante ortum solis,</p> + <p>Luceat nisi polus,</p> + <p>Seneschallus solus,</p> + <p class="i1">Scribit nisi colis.</p> + <p>Clamat clam pro rege</p> + <p>In curia <i>sine lege</i>:</p> + <p>Et qui non cito venerit</p> + <p>Citius pœnitebit:</p> + <p>Si venerit cum lumine</p> + <p>Errat in regimine.</p> + <p>Et dum sine lumine</p> + <p>Capti sunt in crimine,</p> + <p>Curia sine cura</p> + <p>Jurata de injuria</p> + <p class="i1">Tenta est die Mercuriæ</p> + <p class="i2">prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that + "this servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants + of divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an + unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Motto on old Damask.</i>—Can your correspondents furnish an + explanation of the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask + table napkins which were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a + shop in the ordinary way, but privately, from the family to whom they + belonged. I presume the larger characters, if put together, will indicate + the date of the event, whatever that may be, which is referred to in the + motto itself.</p> + + <p>The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the + following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as + subjoined:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span class="sc">sIgnUM paCIs DatUr LorICæ.</span>"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's, + and written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be + explained.</p> + + <p class="author">H.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to + the warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France + in the year 1763. This event is noticed in the <i>Annual Register</i>, + and in most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of + France for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in + earnest, the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov. + 3rd). In spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were + approved of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a + treaty was finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were + probably a gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the + custom of noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. & + Q.," Vol. v., p. 585.]</p> + +</div> + +<p><!-- Page 12 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page12"></a>{12}</span></p> + + <p><i>Explanation of the Word "Miser."</i>—Can any of your readers + explain how and when <i>miser</i> came to get the meaning of an + avaricious hoarding man? In Spenser's <i>Faerie Queene</i>, II. l. 8., it + is used in its nearly primary sense of "wretch:"</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble <i>miser's</i> sake."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Again, <i>Faerie Queene</i>, II. 3. 8.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"The <i>miser</i> threw himself, as an offall,</p> + <p>Straight at his foot in base humility."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>In Milton's <i>Comus</i>, which was written about fifty years after + the first three books of the <i>Faerie Queene,</i> the present + signification of the word is complete:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps</p> + <p>Of <i>miser's</i> treasure by an outlaw's den,</p> + <p>And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope</p> + <p>Danger will sink on opportunity," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. D. Gardner.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Bottisham.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The modern restricted use of the word <i>miser</i> is subsequent to + Shakspeare's time for in Part I. <i>King Henry VI.</i>, Act V. Sc. + 4.,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Decrepit <i>miser</i>! base ignoble wretch!"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a + <i>miserable</i> creature. So in the interlude of <i>Jacob and Esau</i>, + 1568:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"But as for these <i>misers</i> within my father's tent."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of <i>Crœsus</i>, 1604:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss,</p> + <p>A <i>miser</i> that in miserie remains."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Otway, however, in his <i>Orphan</i>, published in 1680, uses it for a + covetous person:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Though she be dearer to my soul than rest</p> + <p>To weary pilgrims, or to <i>misers</i> gold,</p> + <p>Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>So also does Pope:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"No silver saints by dying <i>misers</i> given,</p> + <p>Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven."</p> + </div> + </div> + +</div> + + <p><i>"Acis and Galatea."</i>—Is there any good evidence in support + of the commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's <i>Acis and + Galatea</i> were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are + said to have been written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand + to refer to; but I find the same statement repeated by various other + musical historians, without, however, any authority being given for it. + The words in question are not to be found among the <i>Poems on several + Occasions</i>, by Mr. John Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others. + Have they ever been included in any collective edition of his works?</p> + + <p class="author">G. T.</p> + + <p class="address">Reading.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas + Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to <i>Acis and Galatea</i> + "are said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay." + This serenata is included among Gay's <i>Poems</i> in Dr. Johnson's + edition of the <i>English Poets</i>, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's + edition of 1810, and in the complete edition of <i>British Poets</i>, + Edinburgh, 1794.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Birm-bank.</i>—The bank of a canal opposite to the + towing-path is called the <i>birm-bank</i>. What is the derivation of + this?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The word <i>birm</i> seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. + <i>berme</i>), which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of + three, four, or five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat + or foss, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the + earth from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is + generally planted with quickset hedge.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>General Thomas Gage.</i>—This officer commanded at Boston at + the breaking out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock. + Where can I find any details of the remainder of his history?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Serviens.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the + <i>Georgian Æra</i>, vol. ii. p. 67.]</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>RAPPING NO NOVELTY.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.)</p> + + <p>The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should + like to know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially + as there seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other + grounds one would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the + work which he quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement, + some correspondent would be so good as to state whether it has the + sanction of Baxter:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Mr. Baxter, in his <i>Historical Discourse of Apparitions</i>, writes + thus: 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one + of my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable + rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall + into the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his + brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself sober, + something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a wainscot. When + they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud noises on other + parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have often watched him, + and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His brother has often + told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman, to attest it, who + avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen his shoes under the + bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them. They brought the man + himself to me, and when we asked <!-- Page 13 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page13"></a>{13}</span>him how he dare sin again after such a + warning, he had no excuse. But being persons of quality, for some special + reason of worldly interest I must not name him.'"—De Foe's <i>Life + of Duncan Campbell</i>, 2nd ed. p. 107.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>After this story, De Foe says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself + personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or + familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of + Wiltshire," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from + Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in + Beaumont's <i>Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of + Spirits</i>, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's + saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know + anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar + inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been + answered.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. R. Maitland.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 535.)</p> + + <p>From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's + Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to <span + class="sc">Mr. Lathbury's</span>. This volume forms part of a collection + of books bequeathed to the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A., + formerly of Baliol College:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for + the Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the + subsequent Forms. This is a copy of it:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + +<p class="cenhead">"<i>A Prayer for the Reformed Churches.</i></p> + + <p>"O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee, + more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be Thy + Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect, + strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty + wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our + Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at present + enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted for + Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy + people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them + Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the + World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all + may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls, + Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen."</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1776.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1778.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1780.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1781.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1782.</p> + + <p>A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other + days immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all + Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c., + during his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch, + father of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St. + Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself + and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society for + Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity + Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and + saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the + cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of more + than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants + preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet + Street."—April 23, 1789.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1793.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1795.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1796.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important + Victories. 1797.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1798.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c. + 1798.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet, + Aug. 1. 1798.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the + Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1799.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1800.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1801.</p> + + <p>Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801.</p> + + <p>Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1803.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1804.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1805.</p> + + <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1806.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1807.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1808.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1809.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1810.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Fast. 1812.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814.</p> + + <p>Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Macray.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Oxford.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 14 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page14"></a>{14}</span></p> + +<h3>CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 174.)</p> + + <p>There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is + one full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth + mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only + of late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they + are compared together, the more important and the more striking do the + resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek + literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached + that point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of + the same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh + step in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and + Latin, is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman, + in his <i>Regal Rome</i>, has attention to the subject; but his induction + does not appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion + respecting the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin. + Pritchard's work upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but + both these authors have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of + Celtic and Latin words; but it is not <i>merely</i> this we want. What is + required is a critical examination into the comparative structure and + formal development of the two languages, and this is a work still to be + accomplished. The later numbers of Bopp's <i>Comparative Grammar</i> are, + I believe, devoted to this subject, but as they have not been translated, + they must be confined to a limited circle of English readers, and I have + not yet seen any reproduction of the views therein contained in the + philological literature of England.</p> + + <p>As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a + large induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the + pages of "N. & Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of + connexion" to supply a groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude + by suggesting one or two "links" that I do not remember to have seen + elsewhere.</p> + + <p>1. Is the root of <i>felix</i> to be found in the Irish <i>fail</i>, + <i>fate</i>; the contraction of the dipththong <i>ai</i> or <i>ê</i> + being analogous to that of <i>amaïmus</i> into <i>amêmus</i>?</p> + + <p>2. Is it not probable that <i>Avernus</i>, if not corrupted from <span + title="aornos" class="grk" + >ἄορνος</span>, is related to + <i>iffrin</i>, the Irish <i>inferi</i>? This derivation is at any rate + more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with <span + title="Acherôn" class="grk" + >Ἀχέρων</span>.</p> + + <p>3. Were the <i>Galli</i>, priests of Cybele, so called as being + connected with fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the + Celtic <i>gal</i>, a flame? The word <i>Gallus</i>, a Gaul, is of course + the same as the Irish <i>gal</i>, a stranger.</p> + + <p class="author">T. H. T.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 468.)</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Ingleby's</span> question might easily be the + foundation of a geometrical paper; but as this would not be a desirable + contribution, I will endeavour to keep clear of technicalities, in + pointing out how the process described may give something near to a + circle, or may not.</p> + + <p>When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two + parts perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is <i>symmetrical</i> + about that straight line, which may be called an <i>axis of symmetry</i>. + Thus every diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular + oval has two axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every + regular polygon of an <i>odd</i> number of sides has an axis joining each + corner to the middle of the opposite sides: every regular polygon of an + <i>even</i> number of sides has axes joining opposite corners, and axes + joining the middles of opposite sides.</p> + + <p>When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or + curvilinear, is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of + either side which are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded + figure will of course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If + another line be now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process + repeated, the second line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first + perhaps ceases to be one. If the process be then repeated on the first + line, this last becomes an axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an + axis. If this process can be indefinitely continued, the cuttings must + become smaller and smaller, for the following reason. Suppose, at the + outset, the boundary point nearest to the intersection of the axes is + distant from that intersection by, say four inches; it is clear that we + cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a part of the boundary at less + than four inches from the intersection. For there never is, after any + cutting, any approach to the intersection except what there already was + on the other side of the axis employed, before that cutting was made. If + then the cuttings should go on for ever, or practically until the pieces + to be cut off are too small, and <i>if this take place all round</i>, the + figure last obtained will be a good representation of a circle of four + inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always cutting down, at + all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we can never come + nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes.</p> + + <p>But it does not follow that the process <i>will</i> go on for ever. We + may come at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of + symmetry at once; and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a + curvilinear boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the + proper angle, it would happen that we should arrive at a <!-- Page 15 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page15"></a>{15}</span><i>regular</i> + curved polygon, having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process + would then stop.</p> + + <p>I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere + rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is + still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the + ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters + alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so + many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval. + But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a + perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its + sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be + that of a circle.</p> + + <p>Suppose, as in <span class="sc">Mr. Ingleby's</span> question, that + the creases are not at right angles to each other; supposing the eye and + the scissors <i>perfect</i>, the results will be as follows:</p> + + <p>First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the + mathematicians call <i>incommensurable</i> with the whole revolution; + that is, suppose that no repetition of the angle will produce an + <i>exact</i> number of revolutions. Then the cutting will go on for ever, + and the result will perpetually approach a circle. It is easily shown + that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has two axes of symmetry + which make an angle incommensurable with the whole revolution.</p> + + <p>Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the + revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be + repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even, + it is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd, + it is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon.</p> + + <p>Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the + creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of + the creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that + fourteen repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an + exact number of revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular + polygon of fourteen sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had + been taken for the angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have + had thirty-four sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that + the number of ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular + appearance.</p> + + <p>Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three + or more axes, whether all passing through one point or not.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. De Morgan.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THE BLACK-GUARD.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 414.)</p> + + <p>Some of your correspondents, <span class="sc">Sir James E. + Tennent</span> especially, have been very learned on this subject, and + all have thrown new light on what I consider a very curious inquiry. The + following document I discovered some years ago in the Lord Steward's + Offices. Your readers will see its value at once; but it may not be amiss + to observe, that the name in its present application had its origin in + the number of masterless boys hanging about the verge of the Court and + other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and palace stables; ready + with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct, and rob people on + foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow the Court in its + progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys vile" are the + black-guard boys of the following Proclamation.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Peter Cunningham.</span></p> + + <p class="author">At the Board of Green Cloth,<br />in Windsor Castle, <br />this 7th day of May, 1683.</p> + + <p>Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and + rogues, commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose + fellowes, vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually + haunt and follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as + Wee are informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that + happened in the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently + do commit divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where + they resort, to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the + prevention of which evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby + strictly charge and command all those so called the Black-guard as + aforesaid, with all other loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and + wanderers, who have intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or + stables, that within the space of twenty-four houres next after the + publishing of this order, they depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and + such other punishments as by law are to be inflicted on them.</p> + + <div class="contents"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>(Signed)</p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Ormond.</span></p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">H. Bulkeley.</span></p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">H. Brouncker.</span></p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Rich. Mason.</span></p> + <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Ste. Fox.</span></p> + </div> + </div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.)</p> + + <p>The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their + doings were commemorated in the <i>Weekly Oracle</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 315.) of February 1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii., + p. 480.). There is a pamphlet, <!-- Page 16 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page16"></a>{16}</span>the second edition of which was published in + small 4to., in 1703, entitled:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican + Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes + in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by + their Anthems," &c. &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work + was published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a + certain party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and + more than all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest + hatred—so bitter, so intense and malignant, that we feel on reading + it that there must be some exaggeration.</p> + + <p>The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story + was purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious + than they deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular + demonstration he does not tell us, but gives us information he received + from a gentleman—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their + Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was + inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as + they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em was + in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly consisted of + Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of the + Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry White, + formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to sanctify + with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said Grace; that + after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem, as they + impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with wine, or + other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious memory of those + worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd their country from + arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for the mercenary scribler, + to which every man contributed according to his zeal for the cause, or + the ability of his purse.</p> + + <p>"I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as + faithfully as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some + persons that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the + author of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' + Head Club to be true."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; + but they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote + here. They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the + serious productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically + heretical.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward Peacock.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Bottesford Moors.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>The Calotype Process.</i>—I have made any first essay in the + calotype process, following <span class="sc">Dr. Diamond's</span> + directions given in "N. & Q.," and using Turner's paper, as + recommended by him. My success has been quite as great as I could expect + as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to my own want of + skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish, however, to + ask a question as to iodizing the paper. <span class="sc">Dr. + Diamond</span> says, lay the paper on the solution; then + <i>immediately</i> remove it, and lay on the dry side on blotting-paper, + &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole sheet of paper + curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to know, + therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to remain + on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on removal it + will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the dry side to + pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on the + solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and takes + some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows it + to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the + glass rod, without floating at all?</p> + + <p>Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction, + are so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given + by <span class="sc">Dr. Diamond</span>, which are the result of + experience, that I am sure he will not mind being troubled with a few + inquiries relative to them.</p> + + <p class="author">C. E. F.</p> + + <p><i>Hockin's Short Sketch.</i>—Mr. Hockin is so well known as a + thoroughly practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to + the fact of his having published a little brochure entitled <i>How to + obtain Positive and Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy + the latter upon Paper. A Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in + Photography.</i> As the question of the <i>alkalinity</i> of the nitrate + bath is one which has lately been discussed, we will give, as a specimen + of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his opinion upon that + question:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<i>The sensitizing agent</i>, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the + ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it is + thus employed:</p> + + <p>"<i>The silver or nitrate bath.</i>—Nitrate of silver five + drachms, distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion + two drachms.</p> + + <p>"Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and + filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid with + a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being immersed one + minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid<a name="footnotetag3" + href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a>, and test again for a minute; and so + on, until a claret red is indicated on the paper. It is necessary to test + the bath in a similar manner, frequently adding half a drop to a drop of + dilute acid when required. This precaution will prevent the fogging due + to alkalinity of the bath, so formidable an obstacle to young hands."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a + href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + <p>"Dilute nitric acid.—Water fifty parts, nitric acid one + part."</p> + +</div> + <p><i>Photographic Society's Exhibition.</i>—The Photographic + Society opened their first Exhibition of <!-- Page 17 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page17"></a>{17}</span>Photographs and + Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of the Society of British Artists, in + Suffolk Street, with a <i>soirée</i> on Tuesday evening last. + Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the rooms were crowded not + only by members of the Society, but by many of the most distinguished + literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen and Prince + Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in an + examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the + exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it + afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past + year, and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater + excellence might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just + one, and embodied that given afterwards by the most competent + authorities. We have not room this week to enter into any details, but + can confidently recommend our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk + Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>"Firm was their faith," &c.</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 564.).—These lines are to be found in a poem called "Morwennæ + Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by Masters in 1846, with the title + of <i>Echoes from Old Cornwall</i>, and written by the Vicar of + Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has announced as to + their merits; but hitherto they have been but little appreciated by the + public. A time will come however, when these and other compositions of + the author will be better known and more duly valued by the English + mind.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Saxa.</span></p> + + <p>These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and + appeared in the <i>British Magazine</i> under the anonymous name + <i>Procul</i>. Of the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has + quoted the second. The second line should be read "wise <i>of</i> heart," + and the third "<i>firm</i> and trusting hands." With your correspondent, + I hope the author's name may be discovered.</p> + + <p class="author">F. R. R.</p> + + <p><i>Vellum-cleaning</i> (Vol. viii., p.340.).—In the Polytechnic + Institution there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and + paper, beautifully cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner + Temple Lane, Temple, London.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p> + + <p class="address">Shoreham.</p> + + <p><i>Wooden Tombs</i> (Vol. viii., p. 255.).—In the church at + Brading, Isle of Wight—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William + Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the + rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of + these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour + of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and gilt, + but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."—Barber's Picturesque + Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p> + + <p class="address">Shoreham.</p> + + <p><i>Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263</i> (Vol. viii., p. 441.).—In + the <i>Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland</i>, vol. ii. + p. 350., there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against + Scotland in the year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when + speaking of the annular eclipse, he says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between + these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to Dr. + Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he found + that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and which was + annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was twenty-four + minutes past one."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are + deformed by the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian + writer (at p. 358. and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own. + Having seen that essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of + attending to my observations, he would not read them, and got into a + passion against the friend who showed the MS. to me.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p> + + <p class="address">Shoreham.</p> + + <p><i>Lines on Woman</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).—The + lines on Woman are, I presume, an altered version of those of Barret + (Mrs. Barrett Browning?); they are the finale of a short poem on Woman; + the correct version is the following:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died</p> + <p>Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied;</p> + <p>While even the Apostle left Him to His doom,</p> + <p>She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for + insertion.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ma. L.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel + passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present + correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem. Besides, + it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from the poem + entitled <i>Woman</i>, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see antè, pp. 350. + 423.).]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Satin</i> (Vol. vii., p. 551.).—In a note just received by me + from Canton, an American friend of mine remarks as follows:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word + <i>satin</i> (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese + origin, and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the + English to imitate the Chinese <i>sz-tün</i>, have <!-- Page 18 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page18"></a>{18}</span>approximated closely to + it, and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the + place referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. <i>satin</i>, W. + <i>sidan</i>, &c. &c."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you + quote, have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion + of my Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I + have shown the above extract.</p> + + <p class="author">W. T. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p> + + <p><i>"Quid facies," &c.</i> (Vol. viii., p. 539.).—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Bierve</span>, <i>N. Maréchal</i>, <i>Marquis + de</i>, a Frenchman well known for his ready wit and great facetiousness. + He wrote two plays of considerable merit, <i>Les Réputations</i> and + <i>Le Séducteur</i>. He died at Spa, 1789, aged 42. He is author of the + distich on courtezans:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante?</p> + <p>Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'"</p> + </div> + </div> + +</blockquote> + + <p>—Lemprière's <i>Universal Biography</i>, abridged from the + larger work, London, 1808.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Forbes.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Temple.</p> + + <p><i>Sotades</i> (Vol. viii., p. 520.).—Your correspondent <span + class="sc">Charles Reed</span> says that Sotades was a Roman poet 250 + <span class="scac">B.C.</span>; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma + tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, + according to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria <span + class="scac">B.C.</span> 280 (Smith's <i>Dictionary of Biography</i>, + Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a few fragments of his poems, + but none of them are palindromical. The authority for his having written + so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. <span class="scac">II.</span> 86. + 2.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Nec retro lego Sotaden cinædum."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Zeus.</span></p> + + <p><i>The Third Part of "Christabel"</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 11. + 111.).—Has the <i>Irish Quarterly Review</i> any other reason for + ascribing this poem to Maginn than the common belief which makes him the + sole and original Morgan Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little + value, as, exclusive of some pieces under that name which have been + avowed by other writers, many of the Odoherty papers contain palpable + internal evidence of having been written by a Scotchman, or at least one + very familiar with Scotland, which at that time he was not; even the + letter accompanying the third part of <i>Christabel</i> is dated from + Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove nothing, the circumstances + above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence as to the time when + Maginn's contributions to <i>Blackwood</i> commenced, seems strongly + presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most + distinguished writers in <i>Blackwood</i> are still alive, and could, no + doubt, clear up this point at once, if so inclined.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden.</span></p> + + <p><i>Attainment of Majority</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).—In my + last communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to + prove that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think, + A. E. B. will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man + attains his majority commence at six o'clock <span + class="scac">A.M.</span>, or at midnight? We must remember that we are + dealing with a question of <i>English</i> law; and therefore the evidence + of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the latter + mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B. has + defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. <i>Roman</i>.</p> + + <p>In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at + eleven at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his + age at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies, + it is a good will, for he was then of age."—<i>Salkeld</i>, 44.; + <i>Raymond</i>, 480, 1096; 1 <i>Siderfin</i>, 162.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six + hours before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not + regarding the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves + that the day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at + midnight.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Russell Gole.</span></p> + + <p><i>Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 429. + 543.).—In answer to J. W. J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in + my possession a codicil of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated + 26th of January, 1737. This document refers to some theological tracts by + Sir Isaac Newton, in his handwriting, which I have. On referring to the + pedigree of the Barton family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married + Catherine Greenwood, whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of + Messrs. Greenwood, army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who + married Elizabeth Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find + no mention of Colonel Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been + previously connected with that of Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of + Barton Segrave, having married Jane Barton of Brigstock. The writer of + this note will be obliged if J. W. J., or any correspondent of "N. & + Q.," will inform him if anything is known respecting an ivory bust of Sir + Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or Marchant, which is said to have + been an excellent likeness.</p> + + <p class="author">S. X.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in + the British Museum.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>The fifth Lord Byron</i> (Vol. viii., p. 2.).—I cannot but + think that <span class="sc">Mr. Hasleden's</span> memory has deceived him + as to the "wicked lord" having <!-- Page 19 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page19"></a>{19}</span>settled his estates upon the marriage of his + son; how is this to be reconciled with the often published statement, + that the marriage of his son with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the + admiral, and aunt of the late and present lords, was made not only + without the consent, but in spite of the opposition, of the old lord, and + that he never forgave his son in consequence?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Burton Family</i> (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).—In connexion with + a Query which was kindly noticed by <span class="sc">Mr. Algor</span> of + Sheffield, who did not however communicate anything new to me, I would + ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq., formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose + death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750, I find recorded in the Obituary of + the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for that year? I am also desirous to + ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton of St. Helens, whose + daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes, Esq., ancestor of + the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died since 1696. Both + Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons of Kilburn, in + the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query referred.</p> + + <p class="author">E. H. A.</p> + + <p><i>Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus</i> (Vol. + viii., p. 563.).—In answer to <span class="sc">Mr. + Gantillon's</span> inquiry for the above translation, I beg to state that + it will be found appended to an octavo edition of Hodgson's poem of + <i>Lady Jane Grey</i>.</p> + + <p>In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work + before me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which <span + class="sc">Balliolensis</span> inquiries. The justly admired translation + of <i>Edwin and Angelina</i>, to which the latter refers, was by + Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The splendid pentameter is + slightly misquoted by <span class="sc">Balliolensis</span>. It is + not—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Poscimus in <i>terris</i> pauca, nec illa diù."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>but—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Poscimus in <i>vitâ</i>," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thomas Russell Potter</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Wymeswold, Loughborough.</p> + + <p><i>Wylcotes' Brass</i> (Vol. viii., p. 494.).—I should hardly + have supposed that any difficulty could exist in explaining the + inscription:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"In · on · is · all."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>To me it appears self-evident that it must be—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"In one (God) is my all."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">H. C. C.</p> + + <p><i>Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c</i>. (Vol. viii., p. + 244.).—I would refer <span class="sc">J. B. Whitborne</span> to + <i>The Antiquities of Berkshire</i> (so miscalled), by Elias Ashmole; + where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has given the + inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing <i>and legible in his + time</i>. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was + ever of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the + Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 + the manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the + brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566, + ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not + 1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly + given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, + threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made + by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, + natural son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no + crest nor motto.</p> + + <p class="author">H. C. C.</p> + + <p><i>The Keate Family</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)—Should the + Query of G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. + Burke's <i>Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England</i> relating to the + Keate family, as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be + able, on application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars + which are not noticed in Mr. Burke's works.</p> + + <p class="author">H. C. C.</p> + + <p><i>Sir Charles Cotterell</i> (Vol viii., p. 564.).—Sir Charles + Cotterell, the translator of <i>Cassandra</i>, died in 1687. (See + Fuller's <i>Worthies</i>, by Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.)</p> + + <p class="author"><span title="Halieus" class="grk">Ἁλιεύς</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Dublin.</p> + + <p><i>Huc's Travels</i> (Vol. viii., p. 516.).—Not having seen the + <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i>, in which C. W. B. says the travels of + Messrs. Huc and Gabet in Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure + fabrication, concocted by some Parisian <i>littérateur</i>, I cannot know + what degree of credit, if any, is to be given to such a statement. All I + wish to communicate at present for the information of your Querist + C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account and abstract of Messrs. Huc + and Gabet's <i>Travels</i> in one of the ablest and best conducted French + reviews, <i>La Revue des Deux Mondes</i>; in which not the least + suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed as + to the genuineness of these <i>Travels</i>. Mr. Princep, also, in his + work on Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and + avails himself extensively of the information contained in them with + reference to Buddhism, &c.</p> + + <p>Should the writer in the <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i> have it in his + power to <i>prove</i> the <i>Travels</i> to be a fabrication, he will + confer a benefit on the world of letters by unmasking the fabricator.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Oxford.</p> + + <p><i>Pictures at Hampton Court Palace</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 538.).—In reply to <span class="grk">Φ</span>.'s question when + the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King <!-- Page 20 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page20"></a>{20}</span>George III., after the + Prince of Wales assumed the command of that regiment, I beg to state that + the Prince entered the army as brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the + regiment received the title of "The Prince of Wales's own Regiment of + Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783: that the regiment was stationed + in the south of England and in the vicinity of London for many years, + from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George III. repeatedly + reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family. That the + Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in 1793, + and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That the + regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799; and + the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's + orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance + and performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted + in 1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free + from errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852.</p> + + <p class="author">M. A.</p> + + <p class="address">Pembroke College, Oxon.</p> + + <p><i>John Waugh</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).—Does <span + class="sc">Karleolensis</span> know whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, + Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to whom?</p> + + <p>Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and + thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of + Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire.</p> + + <p class="address">Exeter.</p> + + <p><i>Daughters taking their Mothers' Names</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 586.).—When <span class="sc">Buriensis</span> asks for instances of + this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of Ada," as an example, is he not + mistaking, or following some one else who has mistaken, the <i>gender</i> + of the parent's name? <i>Alicia fil. Adæ</i> would be rendered "Alice + Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to determine the + gender otherwise.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom.</span></p> + + <p>"<i>Service is no Inheritance</i>" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).—This + proverbial saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under + which the lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before + admitting the heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase. + On which occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or + heir, "fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being + generally a year's rent or service.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Anon.</span></p> + + <p><i>Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 340.).—If your correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the + anecdote here alluded to, I think I can confidently refer him to any + biographical notice of Grindling Gibbons—to whom the story of the + "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons was recommended to Sir Christopher by + Evelyn, I think; but not having "made a note of it," I am not sure that + it is to be found in his <i>Diary</i>.<a name="footnotetag4" + href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> If there be any monograph Life of + Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found there.</p> + + <p class="author">M. (2)</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a + href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a> + <p>See Evelyn's <i>Diary</i>, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition + 1850.—<span class="sc">Ed.</span></p> + +</div> + <p><i>Souvaroff's Despatch</i> (Vol. viii., p. 490).—Souvaroff's + doggerel despatch from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, + misspelt and mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have + never yet seen in English, a correct version of it:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Slava Bogou, slava Vam;</p> + <p>Krépost vziala, ee ya tam."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Glory to God, glory to You,</p> + <p>The fortress is taken, and I am there."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Dmitri Andréef.</span></p> + + <p><i>Detached Church Towers</i> (Vol. viii., p. 63.).—In the lists + I have seen no mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church, + which stands at a distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the + church.</p> + + <p class="author">W. B. D.</p> + + <p class="address">Lynn.</p> + + <p><i>Queen Anne's Motto</i> (Vol. viii., p. 174.).—The Historical + Society of Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms, + painted on wood in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top, + and the motto <i>Semper eadem</i> on the scroll below. It probably was in + one of the Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the + Revolution.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p> + + <p><i>Lawyers' Bags</i> (Vol. vii. <i>passim</i>).—The + communication of <span class="sc">Mr. Kersley</span>, in p. 557., + although it does not support the inference which <span class="sc">Col. + Landman</span> draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in + consequence of the unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen + Caroline, seems to show that <i>green</i> was at one time the colour of + those professional pouches. The question still remains, when and on what + occasion it was discontinued; and when the purple, and when the crimson, + were introduced?</p> + + <p>When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior + barrister presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one + had been presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was + advancing in practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his + increase of business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his + papers. It was then a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a + junior was rising <!-- Page 21 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page21"></a>{21}</span>in his profession. I do not know whether the + same custom prevailed in the other courts.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Causidicus.</span></p> + + <p>In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The + custom has declined of late years among the members of the legal + profession, and it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers, + who thus carry their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now + the badge of a cordwainer in this city.</p> + + <p class="author"><a href="images/oldew.png"><img src="images/oldew.png" class="middle" style="height:1.5ex" alt="Old English W" /></a>.</p> + + <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p> + + <p><i>Bust of Luther</i> (Vol. viii., p. 335.).—<span + class="sc">Mr. J. G. Fitch</span> asks for information respecting a bust + of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall of a house, in the Dom Platz + at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned, through a German acquaintance, + who has resided the greater part of his life in that city, that the + effigy was erected to commemorate the event of Luther's having, during a + short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot; and that the words + surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He adds that Luther + at no period of his life "lived for some years" at Frankfort, as stated + by <span class="sc">Mr. Fitch</span>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Smith.</span></p> + + <p><i>Grammar in relation to Logic</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 514. + 629.).—H. C. K.'s remarks are of course indisputable. But it is a + mistake to suppose that they answer my Query. In fact, had your + correspondent taken the trouble to consider the meaning of my Query, he + could not have failed to perceive that the explanation I there gave of + the function of the conjunction <i>in logic</i>, is the same as his. My + Query had sole reference <i>to grammar</i>. I would also respectfully + suggest that anonymous correspondents should not impute "superficial + views," or any other disagreeable thing, to those who stand + <i>confessed</i>, without abandoning the pseudonym.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Mansfield Ingleby.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.</h3> + + <p>Mr. Timbs announces for publication by subscription, <i>Curiosities of + London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable Objects of Interest in + the Metropolis</i>. Mr. Timbs states, the authorities for his work have + been four-and-twenty years in collection; and that the utmost pains has + been taken to verify names, dates, and circumstances, so as to insure + accuracy. In this labour the author has been aided by the communications + of many obliging friends, as well as by his own recollection of nearly + fifty years' changes in the aspects of "opulent, enlarged, and still + increasing London."</p> + + <p>It is proposed to publish by subscription <i>The Visitation of the + County of Northumberland</i>, taken by Richard St. George, Esq., Norroy + King of Arms, and Henry St. George, Esq., Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms, + <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1615. To be printed in tables on folio, + with the arms engraved on wood, price One Guinea; or large paper, royal + folio, Two Guineas; or large paper with the arms emblazoned (of which + only the number subscribed for will be done), Five Guineas. Subscribers' + names will be received by Mr. John Gray Bell, No. 17. Bedford Street, + Covent Garden.</p> + + <p>The first number of the <i>Antiquities of Shropshire</i>, by the Rev. + R. W. 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Three hundred copies of Part I. have been printed, but + the number of the future parts will be limited to those subscribed for + within the next three months.</p> + + <p><i>The Surrey Archæological Society</i> propose holding the Inaugural + General Meeting of the Society in Southwark early in the month of + February, and to exhibit upon the occasion a collection of such objects + of antiquarian interest relating to Surrey as may be contributed for that + purpose. Parties are invited to favour the Society with the loan of such + objects.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>—<i>A Peep at the Pixies, + or Legends of the West</i>, by Mrs. Bray: written for the entertainment + of a family circle, these amusing records of the doings of the little + people will find favour with all lovers of folk lore.—<i>Ada's + Thoughts, or the Poetry of Youth</i>, may be commended for its natural, + simple, yet elevated tone.—<i>Essay on Human Happiness</i>, by + C. B. 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We can assure them that it is no less +our desire to do so than our interest. + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM. + + "_Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque + trouvaille a faire, meme dans ce qui a ete le plus visite_.--Henry + PATIN. + +I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its +bibliographic peculiarities--which may almost pass for romance. + +It is a _Scottish_ work with regard to the family connexion of its author: +it is an _Irish_ work with regard to the place of his nativity. It is an +_English_ work as to the scenes which it represents; a _French_ work as to +the language in which it was written; a _Dutch_ work as to the country in +which it came to light. It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since +borne the name of its author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it +has been twice printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as +fiction: it is now believed to be history. + +But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must not +add to the number. The work to which I allude is the _Memoires du comte de +Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton_. + +The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work remind me +of my _portefeuille Hamiltonien_, and impose on me the task of a partial +transcription of its contents. + +Of the numerous editions of the _Memoires de Grammont_ as recorded by +Brunet, Renouard, or Querard, or left unrecorded by those celebrated +bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to the critical +examination of future editors: + + 1. "_Memoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant + particulierement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le + regne de Charles II._ A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12^o, pp. 4 + + 428. + + "AVIS DU LIBRAIRE.--Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des + memoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Memoires du comte + de Grammont_ reveillera sans doute la curiosite du public pour un homme + qui lui est deja si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la reputation qu'il a + scu se faire, que par les differens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de + Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs ouvrages; et l'on ne doute + nullement qu'il ne recoive, avec beaucoup de plaisir, un livre, dans + lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il en a bien voulu + raconter lui-meme a celui qui a pris la peine de dresser ces memoires. + + "Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent + particulie[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous + le regne de Charles II; et, comme on y decouvre quantite de choses, qui + ont ete tenues cachees jusqu'a present, et qui font voir jusqu'a quel + exces on a porte le dereglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le + morceau le moins interessant de ces memoires. + + "On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a recue de Paris: + et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a ete + possible." + +The above is the _first_ edition. The imprint is fictitious. It was much +used by the Elzevirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second edition, with +the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de Sardiere, No. 939.). +The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. The _avis_ is omitted +in that edition, and in all the later impressions which I have seen. Its +importance as a history of the publication induces one to revive it. There +is also an edition printed at Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); +and another at La Haye in 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits +the edition of 1713. Renouard and Querard notice it too briefly. + + 2. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentee d'un discours preliminaire mele + de prose et de vers, par le meme auteur, et d'un avertissement + contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton._ A Paris, + chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, a la croix d'or. 1746." 12^o. pp. + 24 + 408. + + "AVERTISSEMENT. Le public a fait un accueil si favorable a ces + _Memoires_, que nous avons cru devoir en procurer une nouvelle edition. + Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, tres-piquantes par + elles-memes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse d'Angleterre sous le + regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs ecrits d'une maniere si vive + et si ingenieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de plaire infiniment, + quand la matiere en seroit moins interessante. + + "Le heros de ces _Memoires_ a trouve dans le comte Hamilton un + historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la + meme main a qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappes au meme + coin. + + "Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mele de prose et de + vers, ou l'on exagere la difficulte qu'il y a de bien representer le + comte de Grammont. On reconnoitra facilement que ce discours est du + meme auteur que les _Memoires_, et qu'il devoit naturellement en {4} + orner le frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en + apprecier le merite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un gout + sur et delicat le comparent au _Voyage de Chapelle_, et qu'ils y + trouvent les memes graces, le meme naturel et la meme legerete. + + "Il ne nous reste plus qu'a dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-meme, auteur + de ces memoires, et du discours qui les precede. + + "Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, etoit de l'ancienne et illustre + maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il naquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pere le + chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi + duc de Chatelleraud en France. + + "Sa mere etoit madame Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi + d'Irlande, et grand maitre de la maison du roi Charles. + + "Dans les revolutions qui arriverent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent + le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frere qui passerent en France. Ils y + amenerent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit a peine que de naitre. + + "Lorsque le roi fut retabli sur son trone, il ramena en Angleterre les + jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les memoires de Grammont combien + cette cour etoit brillante; la curiosite y attira le comte de Grammont. + Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas a sentir le pouvoir + de ses charmes, il l'epousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'_Antoine_ + avoit pour sa soeur, qui l'engagea a faire plusieurs voyages en France, + ou il etoit eleve, et ou il a passe une partie de sa vie. + + "M. Antoine Hamilton etant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en + Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ebranler ni sa religion, ni la + fidelite qu'il devoit a son roi. + + "Le roi Jaques etant monte sur le trone, il lui donna un regiment + d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince, + ayant ete oblige de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la + famille royale en France. C'est-la et pendant le long sejour qu'il y a + fait, qu'il a compose les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de + reputation. Il mourut a S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands + sentimens de piete, et apres avoir recu les derniers sacremens. Il + etoit age alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a merite les regrets de tous ceux + qui avoient le bonheur de le connoitre. Ne serieux, il avoit dans + l'esprit tous les agremens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de + louanges, a ces agremens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit + toutes les qualitez du coeur." + +If the above _avertissement_ first appeared in 1746, which I have much +reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The +biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later +memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moreri of 1759, we have it almost _verbatim_, +but taken from the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1749. Neither +Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Querard notice the edition of 1746. The copy +which I have examined has the book-plate G. III. R. + + 3. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton_. 1760." + [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavee, 1760.] 12^o. I. partie, pp. 36 + + 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340. + +This edition has the same _avertissement_ as that of 1746. The imprint is +M.DCC.LX. The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the +water-mark _Auvergne_ 1749. At the end of the second part appears, _De +l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavee_, 1760. This must be M. Francois Didot of +Paris. I find the same colophon in the _Bibliographie instructive_, 1763-8. +v. 631. This very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic +trio! + + 4. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine + Hamilton_. _Nouvelle edition_, _augmentee de notes et d'eclaircissemens + necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole_. Imprimee a Strawberry-Hill. 1772." + 4^o, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits. + + [Dedication.] "A madame.... + + "L'editeur vous consacre cette edition, comme un monument de son + amitie, de son admiration, et de son respect; a vous, dont les graces, + l'esprit, et le gout retracent au siecle present le siecle de Louis + quatorze et les agremens de l'auteur de ces memoires." + +Such are the inscriptions on the _Strawberry-Hill gem_. Much has been said +of its brilliancy--and so, for the sake of novelty, I shall rather dwell on +its flaws. + +The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at +Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of +which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions--now for its +flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had to insert +_eight_ accents to make decent French of it! The _avis_ is a mere medley of +fragments: I could not ask a compositor to set it up! The _avertissement_ +is copied, without a word of intimation to that effect, from the edition of +1746. The notes to the _epitre_ are also copied from that edition, except +_L'abbe de Chaulieu_; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same +source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in +part taken from an erroneous printed _Key_. Where are the +_eclaircissements_? I find none except a list of proper names--of which +about one-third part is omitted! + +In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the _Manuel du +libraire_, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the _avis_ prefixed to +the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1812; in quoting Querard, to _La +France litteraire_, 1827-39. The other references are to sale catalogues. +The titles of the books described, and the extracts, are given _literatim_, +and, except as above noted, with the same accentuation and punctuation. + +To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French +text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made. +That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque! + +The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of the +editions of 1713 and 1746--the rectification of the names of persons {5} +and places--a revision of the punctuation--and a strict conformity, as to +general orthography and accentuation, with the _Dictionnaire de l'Academie +francaise_, as edited in 1835. The substance of the _avis_ of 1713 might be +stated in a preface; and the _avertissement_ of 1746, a clever composition, +would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt +its value may consult the _Grand dictionnaire historique_, and the +_Biographie universelle_. As one hundred and sixty persons are noticed in +the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would require much +research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave would, however, be +very serviceable--more so, I conceive, than the printed notes of M. Horace +Walpole. + +As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I shall +conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid the +_jolie edition_ printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, _par ordre de monseigneur +le comte d'Artois_, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen of editorship. +Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a piratical +pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible books; the +portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly +copies of prints--not _d'apres des tableaux originaux_. The most desirable +editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772, as a _curiosity_; 3. +That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812, 18^o. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by +M. Renouard in 1812, 8^o. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms +part of the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_ in 3 vols. It seldom occurs +for sale. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +THE "ANCREN RIWLE." + +The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise on +the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society, +under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable, and +both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who are +interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in the +subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably +executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks on +the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton is +unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen +College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original +vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by +permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and +after reading and making extracts from it[1], I came to the same conclusion +as Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the +internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts +containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that +Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original +author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have +not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident +that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop +Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the +oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made in +it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the printed +edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been, with +advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are passed +over. Thus, at p. 8., for _unweote_ the second hand has _congoun_; at p. +62., for _herigen_ it has _preisen_; at p. 90., for _on cheafle_, it reads +_o muthe_, &c. The original hand has also some remarkable variations, which +would cause a suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work. +Thus, at p. 12., for _scandle_, the first hand has _schonde_; at p. 62., +for _baldeliche_ it reads _bradliche_; at p. 88., for _nout for_, it has +_anonden_, and the second hand _aneust_; at p. 90., for _sunderliche_ it +reads _sunderlepes_, &c. All these, and many other curious variations, are +not noticed in the printed edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written, +in a hand of the time of Edward I., as follows: "_Datum abbatie et +conventui de Leghe per Dame M. de Clare._" The lady here referred to was +doubtless Maud de Clare, second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford +and Gloucester, who, at the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known +to have changed the Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an +abbess and nuns of the same order; and it was probably at the same period +she bestowed this volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop +Poore, who died in 1237, might have been the original author of the _Ancren +Riwle_, is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error +as to Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to +Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the fly-leaves +of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their respective +contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is more blamable, +and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but (as remarked by +Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of the work. The real +fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged Latin version of the +seven books of the _Riwle_ now preserved in Magdalen College, and this +supposition may well enough be reconciled with the words of Leland, who +says of him,-- + + "Edidit inter caetera, libros _septem_ de Vita Solitaria, {6} ad + Virgines Tarentinas, Duriae cultrices."--_Comment_., p. 316. + +A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian collection +(Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been recovered from +the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of 1731. I am +happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the manuscript +marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of the _Riwle_, +made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing with the vernacular +text), has been entirely restored, except that the top margins of the +leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This damage has, +unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the treatise, and the +title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's note. This copy of +the French version appears to be unique, and is the more interesting from +its having a note at the end (now half obliterated by the fire), stating +that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, whose motto is +also added, "_Plesance. M [mil]. en vn_." The personage in question was +Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and wife of +Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as a nun in the convent at Barking +in 1399. Is any other instance known of the use of this motto? Before I +conclude these brief remarks, I may mention a _fifth_ copy of the _Ancren +Riwle_, which has escaped the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the +enormous folio manuscript of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon +MS., in the Bodleian Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and +occurs at pp. 371^b.--392. In the table of contents prefixed to this volume +it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the phraseology is +somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS. Cleopatra C. vi, than +with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition is printed. This copy is +not complete, some leaves having been cut out in the sixth book, and the +scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed edition. + +It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task of +editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same age as +the _Ancren Riwle_, still existing in various manuscripts. One of the +homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34., Cott. MS. Titus +D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17A. xxvii., is very curious, and well +deserves to be printed. + +F. MADDEN. + +British Museum. + +[Footnote 1: At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my +extracts read "yze."] + + * * * * * + +ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY, A.D. 1650-51. + +At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant +children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds, it +may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order +addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which +applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that +some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those +with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment between +vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of +observation. + + "BY THE MAYOR. + + "Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to put + in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants, and + passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great scandall + and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These are + therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call + before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to + charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty + of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant + that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end + the said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the + several persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are + further to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not + fit to work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where + they dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging, + shal give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she + were taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. _And for + children under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give + an account of their parents, the parish where they are found are to + provide for them; and for those which shall bee found lying under + stalls, having no habitation or parents (from five to nine years old), + are to be sent to the Wardrobe House_[2], _to be provided for by the + corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be + sent to Bridewel._ And for men or women who are able to work and goe + begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be + passed to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken + againe, they are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according + to the discretion of the governours. _And for those persons that shal + be found to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking, + those children are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel, + and the persons so hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed + away, or kept at work there, according to the governour's discretion._ + And for al other vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to + be forthwith sent down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected, + according to the statute laws of this commonwealth, except before + excepted; and the president and governours of Bridewel are hereby + desired to meet twice every week to see to the execution of this + Precept. _And the steward of the workehouse called the Wardrobe, is {7} + authorised to receive into that house such children as are of the age + between five and nine, as is before specified and limited_; and the + said steward is from time to time to acquaint the corporation for the + poor, what persons are brought in, to the end they may bee provided + for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January, 1650. + + SADLER." + +JOHN BRUCE. + +[Footnote 2: I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the +name of The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's +Wardrobe. It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.] + + * * * * * + +LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN. + + Sir, + + I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. & Q.," transcripts of + half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose + correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve, + + Yours faithfully, + HENRY ELLIS. + +British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853. + +I. + +_Dean Swift to_ * * * * * * *. + +[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. _Orig_.] + + Belcamp, Mar. 14th. + + Sir, + + Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his + house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a + plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him + in the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks + to cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no + longer. Mr. Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object + to be received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story + naturally, and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him + curable, and it be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you + will receive him. + + I am, Sir, + Your most humble Servt. + JONATH. SWIFT. + +II. + +_The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley_. + +[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. _Orig_.] + + Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718]. + + Worthy Sir + + I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for + me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the + University (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation) + that you could recover the Book, or at least could find where it is + lodged, that Mr. Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume, + may be done. + + If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a great + discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and began + to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of Ely's + Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been + printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no + name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's + Tullie's Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the + first on vellum, the other on paper. + + May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as + Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of + Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether + either of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen + four or five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by + Grafton, except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a + great Rarity, if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It + varies from all the other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest, + I think, in 1549. One reason of my enquiry is, because I want the + Title, for the date is at the end of the Book, and indeed twice; both + on the end of the Communion Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your + pardon for so small an enquiry, whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg + and Nic. Jenson. My business consists much in trifles. + + I am, Sir, + Your most ob. humble + Servant, + THO. BAKER. + + To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the + Riding Hood Shop, the corner + of Chandois and Bedford Streets, + Covent Garden, + London. + +A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small +scores." + +III. + +_Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to the Rev. Mr. Amory of +Taunton, dated Dunsland, March_ 7, 1731. + +[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.] + + I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation + to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of + the Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly + transacted that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it + were sent him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after + the thing was finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these + Letters and other papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his + History, and which were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was + chancellor, told Morrice's Grandson that if he would file a Bill in + Chancery, he would endeavour to get them; but young Morrice having + deserted the Whig Interest, was {8} prevailed upon to let it drop. This + I know to be fact, for I had it not only from the last-mentioned + Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son of the + Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity of + searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one + time or other I design to publish together with the account of that + affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him + say that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the + least of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the + Nation, had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke + of York) to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to + their Infamy. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + +BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. + +On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village and +church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested by +the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect position +on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They proved to be +those which once had covered and protected the grave of the good Archbishop +Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that parish, and that +of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it appeared that their +remains had been deposited within a small chapel on the south side of the +chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family, of Broadhurst, in the +parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither in 1674, and resided with +his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it +may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly mentioned by the biographers of +Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an ancient mansion, the residence +formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated about a mile north of the village +of Horsted. There it was that Leighton made his will, in February, 1683; +but his death occurred, it will be remembered, in singular accordance with +his desire often expressed, at an inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London. + +The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an arch +now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a school-room; +more recently, however, either through its becoming out of repair, or from +some other cause, the little structure was demolished. The large slabs +which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his brother were taken up +and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now covers the space thus +thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to mark the position of +the graves, which in all probability, ere many years elapse, will be +disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the ashes of Leighton +scattered to the winds. + +In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies of +bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so well +carried out by MR. MARKLAND in regard to the grave of Bishop Ken, shall we +not make an effort to preserve from desecration and oblivion the +resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton for his learning and piety, so +worthy to be held in honoured remembrance for his high principles and his +consistent conduct in an evil age? + +ALBERT WAY. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Grammars, &c. for Public Schools._--Would it not be desirable for some +correspondents of "N. & Q." to furnish information respecting grammars, +classics, and other works which have been written for the various public +schools? Such information might be useful to book collectors; and would +also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose learned masters have +prepared such books. My contribution to the list is small: but I remember a +valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. ---- Hook, formerly head master +of the College School at Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as +also a peculiar English grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master +of St. Mary de Crypt School, in the same place, for the use of that school. +I also possess a copy (1640) of the _Romanae Historiae Anthologia_, for the +use of Abingdon School, and _Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of +the Hebrews_ (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written +after he ceased to be master of the schools. + +P. H. FISHER. + +Stroud. + +"_To captivate._"--Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the Americans +(January 9th, 1819), says: + + "They sometimes, I see, use the word _captivate_ thus: 'Five or six + ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'" + +Originally, the words _to captivate_ were synonymous with _to capture_, and +the expression was used with reference to warlike operations. To captivate +the affections was a secondary use of the phrase. The word is used in the +original sense in many old English books. It is not used so now in the +United States. + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster._--Under the year A.D. 782, the +translator informs us that "Hirenes and _his_ son Constantine became +emperors." Such an emperor is not to be found {9} in the annals of +Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge, who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon, +had referred to him on this occasion, he would probably have found that the +Empress Irene, a name dear to the reverencers of images, was the person +meant. The original Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this +empress, who is considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the +deposition and blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily +forgotten. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.--_ + + "A la Saint-Antoine (17th January) + Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine." + + "A la Saint-Barnabe (11th June) + La faux au pre." + + "A la Sainte-Catherine (25th November) + Tout bois prend racine." + + "Passe la Saint-Clement (23rd November) + Ne seme plus froment." + + "Si l'hiver va droit son chemin, + Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.) + + "S'il n'arreste tant ne quant, + Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Clement." (23rd Nov.) + + "Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombree, + Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Andre." (30th Nov.) + +CEYREP. + +_Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.--_ + + "Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus + Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua. + Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus. + Caelum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris. + Ob^t. 27 Mar. 1624. Aet. 77." + +Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine: + + "Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole, + Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul; + But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name, + Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame. + A priest of priests, inferior was to none, + Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run. + Thus ends the record of this pious man; + Go and do likewise, reader, if you can." + +C. K. P. + +Newport, Essex. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE. + +In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund +Burke," which appeared in the _Athenaeum_ of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th (and +to which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & Q." as have +not yet seen it), the writer observes: + + "There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to infer + from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or + document of any kind--except a mysterious fragment of one + letter--relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long after + Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from + parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother, + or brother to sister." + +And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference +drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the grounds +which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in writings is to +call attention to a source from which, if any such letters exist, they may +yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of professed collectors +of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be conceived that the +destroyer of these materials for the history of the Burkes, be he who he +may, can have got _all_ the family correspondence into his possession. On +the other, it is far from improbable that in some of the collections to +which I have alluded, some letters, notes, or documents may exist, +treasured by the possessors as mere autographs; but which might, if given +to the world, serve to solve many of those mysteries which envelope the +early history of Edmund Burke. The discovery of documents of such a +character seems to be the special province of "N. & Q.," and I hope, +therefore, although this letter has extended far beyond the limits I +originally contemplated, you will insert it, and so permit me to put this +Query to autograph collectors, "Have you any documents illustrative of the +Burkes?" and to add as a Note, "If so, print them!" + +N. O. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Farrant's Anthem._--From what source did Farrant take the words of his +well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?" + +C. F. S. + +_Ascension Day Custom._--What is the origin of the custom which still +obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting the clergy +with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day? + +C. F. S. + +_Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections._--In Snelling's tract on +_Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver Coins_ (1769), p. 45., it is +stated, in the description of a gold Coin of Elizabeth, that it is "unique, +formerly in the collection of Thomas Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the +collection of Thomas Knight, Esq., who purchased the whole cabinet."--Can +any of your readers inform me who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his +collection is still in existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what +manner? I am not aware of any sale catalogue under his name. + +J. B. B. + +_"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."_--I have met with, and +sometimes quoted, this line. {10} Who is its author, and in what poem does +it occur? + +J. W. T. + +Dewsbury. + +_Lord Fairfax._--In the _Peerage of Scotland_ I find this entry: + + "Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of + Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship + resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States." + +Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of that +family taking a part in Scotch affairs. _Cameron_ is, I suppose, the parish +of that name in the east of Fife. + +I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, the +barony was created? + +2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in +Scotland, if they ever held any? + +3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? If +so, is he known and addressed as _Lord_ Fairfax, or how? + +4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of the +United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to exercise +the functions of a peer of Scotland, _e.g._ in the election of +representative peers? + +5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly +or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces +allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the +roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose +existence is a denial of the first proposition in the constitution of his +country? + +Perhaps UNEDA, W. W., or some other of your Philadelphia correspondents, +will be good enough to notice the third of these Queries. + +W. H. M. + +_Tailless Cats._--A writer in the _New York Literary World_ of Feb. 7, +1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of tails, which are found +in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx correspondent will say +whether this is a fact or a Jonathan. + +SHIRLEY HIBBERD. + +_Saltcellar._--Can any of your readers gainsay that in saltcellar the +cellar is a mere corruption of _saliere_? A list of compound words of Saxon +and French origin might be curious. + +H. F. B. + +_Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos._--Can any reader of "N. & +Q." give the _date_ of the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who +assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal Oak," after the +battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant? + +[mu]. + +_Naval Atrocities._--In the article on "Wounds," in the _Encyc. Brit._, 4th +edition, published 1810, the author, after mentioning the necessity of a +surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the character of any wound, adds +that "this is particularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as any +man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mortally wounded, he is forthwith, +while still living and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to this +effect, as I quote from memory. That such horrid barbarity was not +practised in 1810, it is needless to say; and if it had been usual at any +previous period, Smollett and other writers who have exposed with unsparing +hand all the defects in the naval system of their day, would have scarcely +left this unnoticed when they attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing +ever occurred, even in the worst of times, it must have been an isolated +case. I have not met elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the +atrocity recorded in it, and would be glad of more information on the +subject. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Turlehydes._--During the great famine in Ireland land in 1331, it is said +that-- + + "The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential + relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish, + called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on + shore at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty + feet long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of + the fish could not see one another."--_The History and Antiquities of + the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts_, by Walter Harris, 1766, + p. 265. + +This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of which +still exist. As the term _turlehydes_ is not known to Irish scholars, can +any of the readers of "N. & Q." say what precise animal is meant by it, or +give any derivation or reference for the term? + +U. U. + +Dublin. + +_Foreign Orders--Queen of Bohemia._--It is well known that in some foreign +Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon ladies. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whether the Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia, +formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy, at any time conferred its +decorations upon ladies; and whether the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards +Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration of any foreign order conferred +upon her? In a portrait of her she is represented with a star or badge upon +the upper part of the left arm. + +S. E. G. + +_Pickard Family._--Is the _Pickard_, or _Picard_, family, a branch of which +is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If so, who were the _first +settlers_ in England; and also in what county are they most numerous? + +ONE OF THE FAMILY. + +Bradford. + +{11} + +_Irish Chieftains._--Some account of the following, _Historical +Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other Irish +Chieftains_, privately printed, 1843, is requested by + +JOHN MARTIN. + +Woburn Abbey. + +_General Braddock._--Can any of your readers furnish me with information +relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against Fort Du Quesne, +and its details, are well known; but I should like to know something more +of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or two of him, and +mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think too he was of +Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of Braddock in +existence? + +SERVIENS. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex._--A most extraordinary custom exists, in a +manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what is called the "Lawless +Court." This court is held at midnight, by torch-light, in the centre of a +field, on the first Friday after the 29th Sept., and is presided over by +the steward of the manor, who, however, appoints a deputy to fulfil this +part of his duty. The tenants of the manor are obliged to attend to answer +to their names, when called upon, under pain of a heavy fine, or at all +events have some one there to respond for them. All the proceedings are +carried on in a whisper, no one speaking above that tone of voice; and the +informations as to deaths, names, &c. are entered in a book by the +president with a piece of charcoal. I may add, the business is not +commenced until a cock has crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a +difficult matter to get Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to +crow, whose fee therefor is 5s. + +Now Morant, in his _History of Essex_, merely cursorily mentions this most +singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin; I should +therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning it. + +RUSSELL GOLE. + + [The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old authors + it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The following + account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by Hearne + from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:--"The manor of + Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the Wednesday nexte + after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and without light, + but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the towne, called the + King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, and not with + inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the same, and do + suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them with as low + a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to the hill + to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely amerced, if + the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as + followeth, viz.: + + 'Curia de domino rege, + Dicta _sine lege_, + Tenta est ibidem, + Per ejusdem consuetudinem, + Ante ortum solis, + Luceat nisi polus, + Seneschallus solus, + Scribit nisi colis. + Clamat clam pro rege + In curia _sine lege_: + Et qui non cito venerit + Citius poenitebit: + Si venerit cum lumine + Errat in regimine. + Et dum sine lumine + Capti sunt in crimine, + Curia sine cura + Jurata de injuria + Tenta est die Mercuriae + prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'" + + Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that "this + servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants of + divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an + unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."] + +_Motto on old Damask._--Can your correspondents furnish an explanation of +the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask table napkins which +were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a shop in the ordinary way, +but privately, from the family to whom they belonged. I presume the larger +characters, if put together, will indicate the date of the event, whatever +that may be, which is referred to in the motto itself. + +The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the +following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as subjoined: + + "SIGNUM PACIS DATUR LORICAE." + +the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's, and +written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be explained. + +H. + + [The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to the + warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France in + the year 1763. This event is noticed in the _Annual Register_, and in + most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of France + for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in earnest, + the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov. 3rd). In + spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were approved + of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a treaty was + finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were probably a + gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the custom of + noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. & Q.," Vol. + v., p. 585.] + +{12} + +_Explanation of the Word "Miser."_--Can any of your readers explain how and +when _miser_ came to get the meaning of an avaricious hoarding man? In +Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, II. l. 8., it is used in its nearly primary +sense of "wretch:" + + "Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble _miser's_ sake." + +Again, _Faerie Queene_, II. 3. 8.: + + "The _miser_ threw himself, as an offall, + Straight at his foot in base humility." + +In Milton's _Comus_, which was written about fifty years after the first +three books of the _Faerie Queene,_ the present signification of the word +is complete: + + "You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps + Of _miser's_ treasure by an outlaw's den, + And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope + Danger will sink on opportunity," &c. + +J. D. GARDNER. + +Bottisham. + + [The modern restricted use of the word _miser_ is subsequent to + Shakspeare's time for in Part I. _King Henry VI._, Act V. Sc. 4., + + "Decrepit _miser_! base ignoble wretch!" + + Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a + _miserable_ creature. So in the interlude of _Jacob and Esau_, 1568: + + "But as for these _misers_ within my father's tent." + + Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of _Croesus_, 1604: + + "Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss, + A _miser_ that in miserie remains." + + Otway, however, in his _Orphan_, published in 1680, uses it for a + covetous person: + + "Though she be dearer to my soul than rest + To weary pilgrims, or to _misers_ gold, + Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee." + + So also does Pope: + + "No silver saints by dying _misers_ given, + Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven." + +_"Acis and Galatea."_--Is there any good evidence in support of the +commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's _Acis and Galatea_ +were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are said to have been +written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand to refer to; but I +find the same statement repeated by various other musical historians, +without, however, any authority being given for it. The words in question +are not to be found among the _Poems on several Occasions_, by Mr. John +Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others. Have they ever been included +in any collective edition of his works? + +G. T. + +Reading. + + [In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas + Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to _Acis and Galatea_ "are + said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay." This + serenata is included among Gay's _Poems_ in Dr. Johnson's edition of + the _English Poets_, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's edition of 1810, + and in the complete edition of _British Poets_, Edinburgh, 1794.] + +_Birm-bank._--The bank of a canal opposite to the towing-path is called the +_birm-bank_. What is the derivation of this? + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + + [The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_), + which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or + five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss, + designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth + from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is + generally planted with quickset hedge.] + +_General Thomas Gage._--This officer commanded at Boston at the breaking +out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock. Where can I find +any details of the remainder of his history? + +SERVIENS. + + [An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the + _Georgian Aera_, vol. ii. p. 67.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +RAPPING NO NOVELTY. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.) + +The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should like to +know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially as there +seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other grounds one +would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the work which he +quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement, some correspondent +would be so good as to state whether it has the sanction of Baxter: + + "Mr. Baxter, in his _Historical Discourse of Apparitions_, writes thus: + 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of + my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank, + who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall into + the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his + brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself + sober, something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a + wainscot. When they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud + noises on other parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have + often watched him, and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His + brother has often told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman, + to attest it, who avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen + his shoes under the bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them. + They brought the man himself to me, and when we asked {13} him how he + dare sin again after such a warning, he had no excuse. But being + persons of quality, for some special reason of worldly interest I must + not name him.'"--De Foe's _Life of Duncan Campbell_, 2nd ed. p. 107. + +After this story, De Foe says: + + "Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself + personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or + familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of + Wiltshire," &c. + +But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from +Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in +Beaumont's _Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of +Spirits_, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's +saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know +anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar +inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been +answered. + +S. R. MAITLAND. + + * * * * * + +OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER. + +(Vol. viii., p. 535.) + +From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's +Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to MR. +LATHBURY'S. This volume forms part of a collection of books bequeathed to +the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A., formerly of Baliol College: + + A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762. + +In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for the +Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the subsequent +Forms. This is a copy of it: + + "_A Prayer for the Reformed Churches._ + + "O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee, + more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be + Thy Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect, + strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty + wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our + Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at + present enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted + for Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy + people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them + Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the + World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all + may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls, + Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen." + + Form, &c. Fast. 1776. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1778. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1780. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1781. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1782. + + A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other days + immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all + Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c., during + his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788. + +The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch, father +of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection: + + "Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St. + Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself + and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society + for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity + Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and + saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the + cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of + more than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants + preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet + Street."--April 23, 1789. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1793. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1795. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1796. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important + Victories. 1797. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet, + Aug. 1. 1798. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the + Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1799. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1800. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1801. + + Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801. + + Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1803. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1804. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1805. + + Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1806. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1807. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1808. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1809. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1810. + + Form, &c. Fast. 1812. + + Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814. + + Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816. + +JOHN MACRAY. + +Oxford. + + * * * * * + +{14} + +CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES. + +(Vol. viii., p. 174.) + +There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is one +full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth +mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only of +late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they are +compared together, the more important and the more striking do the +resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek +literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached that +point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of the +same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh step +in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and Latin, +is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman, in his +_Regal Rome_, has attention to the subject; but his induction does not +appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion respecting +the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin. Pritchard's work +upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but both these authors +have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of Celtic and Latin +words; but it is not _merely_ this we want. What is required is a critical +examination into the comparative structure and formal development of the +two languages, and this is a work still to be accomplished. The later +numbers of Bopp's _Comparative Grammar_ are, I believe, devoted to this +subject, but as they have not been translated, they must be confined to a +limited circle of English readers, and I have not yet seen any reproduction +of the views therein contained in the philological literature of England. + +As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a large +induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the pages of "N. +& Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of connexion" to supply a +groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude by suggesting one or two +"links" that I do not remember to have seen elsewhere. + +1. Is the root of _felix_ to be found in the Irish _fail_, _fate_; the +contraction of the dipththong _ai_ or _e_ being analogous to that of +_amaimus_ into _amemus_? + +2. Is it not probable that _Avernus_, if not corrupted from [Greek: +aornos], is related to _iffrin_, the Irish _inferi_? This derivation is at +any rate more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with +[Greek: Acheron]. + +3. Were the _Galli_, priests of Cybele, so called as being connected with +fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the Celtic _gal_, a +flame? The word _Gallus_, a Gaul, is of course the same as the Irish _gal_, +a stranger. + +T. H. T. + + * * * * * + +GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY. + +(Vol. viii., p. 468.) + +MR. INGLEBY'S question might easily be the foundation of a geometrical +paper; but as this would not be a desirable contribution, I will endeavour +to keep clear of technicalities, in pointing out how the process described +may give something near to a circle, or may not. + +When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two parts +perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is _symmetrical_ about that +straight line, which may be called an _axis of symmetry_. Thus every +diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular oval has two +axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every regular polygon of an +_odd_ number of sides has an axis joining each corner to the middle of the +opposite sides: every regular polygon of an _even_ number of sides has axes +joining opposite corners, and axes joining the middles of opposite sides. + +When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or curvilinear, +is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of either side which +are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded figure will of +course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If another line be +now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process repeated, the second +line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first perhaps ceases to be one. +If the process be then repeated on the first line, this last becomes an +axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an axis. If this process can be +indefinitely continued, the cuttings must become smaller and smaller, for +the following reason. Suppose, at the outset, the boundary point nearest to +the intersection of the axes is distant from that intersection by, say four +inches; it is clear that we cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a +part of the boundary at less than four inches from the intersection. For +there never is, after any cutting, any approach to the intersection except +what there already was on the other side of the axis employed, before that +cutting was made. If then the cuttings should go on for ever, or +practically until the pieces to be cut off are too small, and _if this take +place all round_, the figure last obtained will be a good representation of +a circle of four inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always +cutting down, at all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we +can never come nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes. + +But it does not follow that the process _will_ go on for ever. We may come +at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of symmetry at once; +and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a curvilinear +boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the proper angle, +it would happen that we should arrive at a {15} _regular_ curved polygon, +having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process would then stop. + +I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere +rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is +still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the +ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters +alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so +many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval. +But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a +perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its +sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be +that of a circle. + +Suppose, as in MR. INGLEBY'S question, that the creases are not at right +angles to each other; supposing the eye and the scissors _perfect_, the +results will be as follows: + +First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the mathematicians +call _incommensurable_ with the whole revolution; that is, suppose that no +repetition of the angle will produce an _exact_ number of revolutions. Then +the cutting will go on for ever, and the result will perpetually approach a +circle. It is easily shown that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has +two axes of symmetry which make an angle incommensurable with the whole +revolution. + +Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the +revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be +repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even, it +is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd, it +is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon. + +Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the +creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of the +creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that fourteen +repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an exact number of +revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular polygon of fourteen +sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had been taken for the +angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have had thirty-four +sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that the number of +ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular appearance. + +Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three or +more axes, whether all passing through one point or not. + +A. DE MORGAN. + + * * * * * + +THE BLACK-GUARD. + +(Vol. viii., p. 414.) + +Some of your correspondents, SIR JAMES E. TENNENT especially, have been +very learned on this subject, and all have thrown new light on what I +consider a very curious inquiry. The following document I discovered some +years ago in the Lord Steward's Offices. Your readers will see its value at +once; but it may not be amiss to observe, that the name in its present +application had its origin in the number of masterless boys hanging about +the verge of the Court and other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and +palace stables; ready with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct, +and rob people on foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow +the Court in its progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys +vile" are the black-guard boys of the following Proclamation. + +PETER CUNNINGHAM. + +At the Board of Green Cloth, +in Windsor Castle, +this 7th day of May, 1683. + +Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and rogues, +commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose fellowes, +vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually haunt and +follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as Wee are +informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that happened in +the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently do commit +divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where they resort, +to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the prevention of which +evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby strictly charge and +command all those so called the Black-guard as aforesaid, with all other +loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and wanderers, who have +intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or stables, that within the +space of twenty-four houres next after the publishing of this order, they +depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and such other punishments as by law are +to be inflicted on them. + + (Signed) + ORMOND. + H. BULKELEY. + H. BROUNCKER. + RICH. MASON. + STE. FOX. + + * * * * * + +THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.) + +The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their doings +were commemorated in the _Weekly Oracle_ (Vol. viii., p. 315.) of February +1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii., p. 480.). There is a +pamphlet, {16} the second edition of which was published in small 4to., in +1703, entitled: + + "The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican + Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head + Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of + January, by their Anthems," &c. &c. + +We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work was +published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a certain +party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and more than +all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest hatred--so bitter, so +intense and malignant, that we feel on reading it that there must be some +exaggeration. + +The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story was +purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious than they +deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular demonstration +he does not tell us, but gives us information he received from a +gentleman-- + + "Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their + Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was + inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as + they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em + was in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly + consisted of Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of + the Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry + White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to + sanctify with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said + Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem, + as they impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with + wine, or other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious + memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd + their country from arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for + the mercenary scribler, to which every man contributed according to his + zeal for the cause, or the ability of his purse. + + "I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as faithfully + as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some persons + that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the author + of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' Head + Club to be true." + +The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; but +they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote here. +They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the serious +productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically heretical. + +EDWARD PEACOCK. + +Bottesford Moors. + + * * * * * + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_The Calotype Process._--I have made any first essay in the calotype +process, following DR. DIAMOND'S directions given in "N. & Q.," and using +Turner's paper, as recommended by him. My success has been quite as great +as I could expect as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to +my own want of skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish, +however, to ask a question as to iodizing the paper. DR. DIAMOND says, lay +the paper on the solution; then _immediately_ remove it, and lay on the dry +side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole +sheet of paper curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to +know, therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to +remain on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on +removal it will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the +dry side to pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on +the solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and +takes some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows +it to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the +glass rod, without floating at all? + +Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction, are +so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given by DR. +DIAMOND, which are the result of experience, that I am sure he will not +mind being troubled with a few inquiries relative to them. + +C. E. F. + +_Hockin's Short Sketch._--Mr. Hockin is so well known as a thoroughly +practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to the fact of his +having published a little brochure entitled _How to obtain Positive and +Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy the latter upon Paper. A +Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in Photography._ As the question of the +_alkalinity_ of the nitrate bath is one which has lately been discussed, we +will give, as a specimen of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his +opinion upon that question: + + "_The sensitizing agent_, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the + ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it + is thus employed: + + "_The silver or nitrate bath._--Nitrate of silver five drachms, + distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion two + drachms. + + "Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and + filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid + with a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being + immersed one minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid[3], and test + again for a minute; and so on, until a claret red is indicated on the + paper. It is necessary to test the bath in a similar manner, frequently + adding half a drop to a drop of dilute acid when required. This + precaution will prevent the fogging due to alkalinity of the bath, so + formidable an obstacle to young hands." + +[Footnote 3: "Dilute nitric acid.--Water fifty parts, nitric acid one +part."] + +_Photographic Society's Exhibition._--The Photographic Society opened their +first Exhibition of {17} Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of +the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk Street, with a _soiree_ on +Tuesday evening last. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the +rooms were crowded not only by members of the Society, but by many of the +most distinguished literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen +and Prince Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in +an examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the +exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it +afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past year, +and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater excellence +might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just one, and +embodied that given afterwards by the most competent authorities. We have +not room this week to enter into any details, but can confidently recommend +our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk Street. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_"Firm was their faith," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 564.).--These lines are to be +found in a poem called "Morwennae Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by +Masters in 1846, with the title of _Echoes from Old Cornwall_, and written +by the Vicar of Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has +announced as to their merits; but hitherto they have been but little +appreciated by the public. A time will come however, when these and other +compositions of the author will be better known and more duly valued by the +English mind. + +SAXA. + +These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and +appeared in the _British Magazine_ under the anonymous name _Procul_. Of +the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has quoted the second. +The second line should be read "wise _of_ heart," and the third "_firm_ and +trusting hands." With your correspondent, I hope the author's name may be +discovered. + +F. R. R. + +_Vellum-cleaning_ (Vol. viii., p.340.).--In the Polytechnic Institution +there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and paper, beautifully +cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner Temple Lane, Temple, +London. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Wooden Tombs_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--In the church at Brading, Isle of +Wight-- + + "There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William + Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the + rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of + these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour + of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and + gilt, but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."--Barber's + Picturesque Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--In the +_Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 350., +there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against Scotland in the +year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when speaking of the +annular eclipse, he says: + + "The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between + these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to + Dr. Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he + found that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and + which was annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was + twenty-four minutes past one." + +These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are deformed by +the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian writer (at p. 358. +and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own. Having seen that +essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of attending to my +observations, he would not read them, and got into a passion against the +friend who showed the MS. to me. + +J. McK. + +Shoreham. + +_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).--The lines on Woman are, +I presume, an altered version of those of Barret (Mrs. Barrett Browning?); +they are the finale of a short poem on Woman; the correct version is the +following: + + "Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died + Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied; + While even the Apostle left Him to His doom, + She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb." + +I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for +insertion. + +MA. L. + + [Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel + passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present + correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem. + Besides, it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from + the poem entitled _Woman_, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see ante, pp. + 350. 423.).] + +_Satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.).--In a note just received by me from Canton, +an American friend of mine remarks as follows: + + "When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_ + (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin, + and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to + imitate the Chinese _sz-tuen_, have {18} approximated closely to it, + and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place + referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c." + +I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote, +have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my +Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown +the above extract. + +W. T. M. + +Hong Kong. + +_"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).-- + + "BIERVE, _N. Marechal_, _Marquis de_, a Frenchman well known for his + ready wit and great facetiousness. He wrote two plays of considerable + merit, _Les Reputations_ and _Le Seducteur_. He died at Spa, 1789, aged + 42. He is author of the distich on courtezans: + + 'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante? + Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'" + +--Lempriere's _Universal Biography_, abridged from the larger work, London, +1808. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + +_Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that +Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma +tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according +to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's +_Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a +few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The +authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86. +2.: + + "Nec retro lego Sotaden cinaedum." + +ZEUS. + +_The Third Part of "Christabel"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.).--Has the +_Irish Quarterly Review_ any other reason for ascribing this poem to Maginn +than the common belief which makes him the sole and original Morgan +Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little value, as, exclusive of some +pieces under that name which have been avowed by other writers, many of the +Odoherty papers contain palpable internal evidence of having been written +by a Scotchman, or at least one very familiar with Scotland, which at that +time he was not; even the letter accompanying the third part of +_Christabel_ is dated from Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove +nothing, the circumstances above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence +as to the time when Maginn's contributions to _Blackwood_ commenced, seems +strongly presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most +distinguished writers in _Blackwood_ are still alive, and could, no doubt, +clear up this point at once, if so inclined. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Attainment of Majority_ (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).--In my last +communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to prove +that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think, A. E. B. +will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man attains his +majority commence at six o'clock A.M., or at midnight? We must remember +that we are dealing with a question of _English_ law; and therefore the +evidence of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the +latter mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B. +has defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. _Roman_. + +In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said: + + "It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at eleven + at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his age + at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies, it + is a good will, for he was then of age."--_Salkeld_, 44.; _Raymond_, + 480, 1096; 1 _Siderfin_, 162. + +In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six hours +before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not regarding +the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves that the +day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at midnight. + +RUSSELL GOLE. + +_Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton_ (Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.).--In answer +to J. W. J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in my possession a codicil +of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated 26th of January, 1737. This +document refers to some theological tracts by Sir Isaac Newton, in his +handwriting, which I have. On referring to the pedigree of the Barton +family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married Catherine Greenwood, +whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of Messrs. Greenwood, +army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who married Elizabeth +Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find no mention of Colonel +Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been previously connected with that of +Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of Barton Segrave, having married Jane +Barton of Brigstock. The writer of this note will be obliged if J. W. J., +or any correspondent of "N. & Q.," will inform him if anything is known +respecting an ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or +Marchant, which is said to have been an excellent likeness. + +S. X. + + [The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in the + British Museum.] + +_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. viii., p. 2.).--I cannot but think that MR. +HASLEDEN'S memory has deceived him as to the "wicked lord" having {19} +settled his estates upon the marriage of his son; how is this to be +reconciled with the often published statement, that the marriage of his son +with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the admiral, and aunt of the late and +present lords, was made not only without the consent, but in spite of the +opposition, of the old lord, and that he never forgave his son in +consequence? + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).--In connexion with a Query which +was kindly noticed by MR. ALGOR of Sheffield, who did not however +communicate anything new to me, I would ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq., +formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750, +I find recorded in the Obituary of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that +year? I am also desirous to ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton +of St. Helens, whose daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes, +Esq., ancestor of the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died +since 1696. Both Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons +of Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query +referred. + +E. H. A. + +_Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus_ (Vol. viii., p. +563.).--In answer to MR. GANTILLON'S inquiry for the above translation, I +beg to state that it will be found appended to an octavo edition of +Hodgson's poem of _Lady Jane Grey_. + +In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work before +me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which BALLIOLENSIS +inquiries. The justly admired translation of _Edwin and Angelina_, to which +the latter refers, was by Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The +splendid pentameter is slightly misquoted by BALLIOLENSIS. It is not-- + + "Poscimus in _terris_ pauca, nec illa diu." + +but-- + + "Poscimus in _vita_," &c. + +THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER. + +Wymeswold, Loughborough. + +_Wylcotes' Brass_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--I should hardly have supposed +that any difficulty could exist in explaining the inscription: + + "In . on . is . all." + +To me it appears self-evident that it must be-- + + "In one (God) is my all." + +H. C. C. + +_Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c_. (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--I would +refer J. B. WHITBORNE to _The Antiquities of Berkshire_ (so miscalled), by +Elias Ashmole; where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has +given the inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing _and legible in his +time_. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was ever +of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy +Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 the +manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the +brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566, +ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not +1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly +given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, +threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by +Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural +son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no crest nor +motto. + +H. C. C. + +_The Keate Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)--Should the Query of +G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. Burke's +_Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_ relating to the Keate family, +as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be able, on +application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars which are +not noticed in Mr. Burke's works. + +H. C. C. + +_Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the +translator of _Cassandra_, died in 1687. (See Fuller's _Worthies_, by +Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.) + +[Greek: Halieus]. + +Dublin. + +_Huc's Travels_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--Not having seen the _Gardener's +Chronicle_, in which C. W. B. says the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in +Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some +Parisian _litterateur_, I cannot know what degree of credit, if any, is to +be given to such a statement. All I wish to communicate at present for the +information of your Querist C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account +and abstract of Messrs. Huc and Gabet's _Travels_ in one of the ablest and +best conducted French reviews, _La Revue des Deux Mondes_; in which not the +least suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed +as to the genuineness of these _Travels_. Mr. Princep, also, in his work on +Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and avails himself +extensively of the information contained in them with reference to +Buddhism, &c. + +Should the writer in the _Gardener's Chronicle_ have it in his power to +_prove_ the _Travels_ to be a fabrication, he will confer a benefit on the +world of letters by unmasking the fabricator. + +J. M. + +Oxford. + +_Pictures at Hampton Court Palace_ (Vol. viii., p. 538.).--In reply to +[Phi].'s question when the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King {20} +George III., after the Prince of Wales assumed the command of that +regiment, I beg to state that the Prince entered the army as +brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the regiment received the title of "The +Prince of Wales's own Regiment of Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783: +that the regiment was stationed in the south of England and in the vicinity +of London for many years, from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George +III. repeatedly reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family. +That the Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in +1793, and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That +the regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799; +and the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's +orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance and +performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted in +1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free from +errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852. + +M. A. + +Pembroke College, Oxon. + +_John Waugh_ (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).--Does KARLEOLENSIS know +whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to +whom? + +Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and +thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of +Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire. + +Exeter. + +_Daughters taking their Mothers' Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--When +BURIENSIS asks for instances of this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of +Ada," as an example, is he not mistaking, or following some one else who +has mistaken, the _gender_ of the parent's name? _Alicia fil. Adae_ would +be rendered "Alice Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to +determine the gender otherwise. + +J. SANSOM. + +"_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--This proverbial +saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under which the +lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before admitting the +heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase. On which +occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or heir, +"fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being generally a +year's rent or service. + +ANON. + +_Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver_ (Vol. viii., p. 340.).--If your +correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the anecdote here alluded +to, I think I can confidently refer him to any biographical notice of +Grindling Gibbons--to whom the story of the "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons +was recommended to Sir Christopher by Evelyn, I think; but not having "made +a note of it," I am not sure that it is to be found in his _Diary_.[4] If +there be any monograph Life of Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found +there. + +M. (2) + +[Footnote 4: See Evelyn's _Diary_, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition +1850.--ED.] + +_Souvaroff's Despatch_ (Vol. viii., p. 490).--Souvaroff's doggerel despatch +from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, misspelt and +mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have never yet seen in +English, a correct version of it: + + "Slava Bogou, slava Vam; + Krepost vziala, ee ya tam." + + "Glory to God, glory to You, + The fortress is taken, and I am there." + +DMITRI ANDREEF. + +_Detached Church Towers_ (Vol. viii., p. 63.).--In the lists I have seen no +mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church, which stands at a +distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the church. + +W. B. D. + +Lynn. + +_Queen Anne's Motto_ (Vol. viii., p. 174.).--The Historical Society of +Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms, painted on wood +in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top, and the motto +_Semper eadem_ on the scroll below. It probably was in one of the +Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the Revolution. + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Lawyers' Bags_ (Vol. vii. _passim_).--The communication of MR. KERSLEY, in +p. 557., although it does not support the inference which COL. LANDMAN +draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in consequence of the +unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen Caroline, seems to +show that _green_ was at one time the colour of those professional pouches. +The question still remains, when and on what occasion it was discontinued; +and when the purple, and when the crimson, were introduced? + +When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior barrister +presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one had been +presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was advancing in +practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his increase of +business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his papers. It was then +a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a junior was rising {21} in +his profession. I do not know whether the same custom prevailed in the +other courts. + +CAUSIDICUS. + +In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The custom +has declined of late years among the members of the legal profession, and +it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers, who thus carry +their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now the badge of a +cordwainer in this city. + +[Old English W]. + +Philadelphia. + +_Bust of Luther_ (Vol. viii., p. 335.).--MR. J. G. FITCH asks for +information respecting a bust of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall +of a house, in the Dom Platz at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned, +through a German acquaintance, who has resided the greater part of his life +in that city, that the effigy was erected to commemorate the event of +Luther's having, during a short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot; +and that the words surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He +adds that Luther at no period of his life "lived for some years" at +Frankfort, as stated by MR. FITCH. + +ALFRED SMITH. + +_Grammar in relation to Logic_ (Vol. viii., pp. 514. 629.).--H. 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